Word: recruited
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...recruit when he entered the Sun Records studio in Memphis in late 1954, Elvis learned enough so that, when he joined RCA, he was soon the de facto producer of his own sessions. Steve Sholes was RCA's A&R representative, but, as Phillips insisted to Guralnick: "He was NOT a producer. Steve was just at every session, and he kept his fucking mouth shut." Sholes would propose songs, and Elvis would dispose. In 1957 Leiber and Stoller, the L.A.-based singer-songwriters whose "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" would be prime Presley calling cards, took over as producers. Stoller...
Hankins, an associate at the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, was active among black Harvard alumni and worked to mentor and recruit black lawyers both within his firm and in the greater Boston area...
...serve on his first day at the boot camp—and was imprisoned for a year. “If you don’t do what these people want you to do, they’re going to lock you up,” Kanz says. Another recruit suffered a nervous breakdown but was not permitted to see a doctor. “It was pretty awful,” he says, “but also pretty interesting” from a psychological viewpoint...
...We’ve got hot models,” Kim and Young boast, with broad smiles. Auditions were held several weekends ago, and the producers ultimately selected 20 female and 10 male models to saunter down the catwalk. “We made an effort to recruit a diverse array of looks and body types,” Kim says. The two scoured their lecture classes for potential supermodels and found an overwhelming number of students who wanted to audition. The show’s participants are excited to infuse a little fashion into Harvard life...
...used for purposes of jihad. That was back in the mid-1980s, when the target of Bin Laden's jihad was the Soviet army occupying Afghanistan. Bin Laden was a star fundraiser and organizer for a program organized by Egyptian and Saudi intelligence in conjunction with the CIA to recruit young Muslims from around the world enraged by this infidel occupation of a Muslim land, bring them through Pakistan to Afghanistan, train them, arm them, organize them into a kind of Islamist International Brigade and let them loose on the hapless Red Army. That program helped drive the Soviets...