Word: recruiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recruit a basketball team, the Station called back into service Lieut. James Russell Cook, one of its 1918 alumni. Unlike Halas, Conzelman, Bachman and Driscoll, Cook-who was a three-letter man at De Pauw University-had chosen basketball as a professional career. For ten years (1920-30) he produced razzle-dazzle quintets at Indiana's Central Normal College; nursed one, composed of five brothers named Reeves, along to the semi-finals of the 1929 National A.A.U. basketball tournament...
...recruit seaman is credited with the first blow against the enemy. General Quarters had not yet sounded when he fought off an attacking plane singlehanded with a machine...
Look into the history of the rejected recruit, who has bad teeth, poor eyesight and enlarged joints...
There once more Byron could be close to the Shelley circle, which had gained a new recruit in dark, hawk-nosed, piratical Edward Trelawny (The Adventures of a Younger Son) who, to Byron's annoyance, looked and acted like a Byron hero. Trelawny discovered that Byron had nicknamed Shelley "The Snake...
...They occupied themselves during a seven-hour day with c carpentering, painting, and doing odd jobs in the rambling, converted school building which houses Cambridge's only colored settlement, and they spent the evening discussing and planning future "Weekend Work Camps," urban and rural, for which they expected to recruit several times their number from colleges in the Greater Boston area...