Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...host in New York said flatly that Sir Roger had become "mentally unbalanced." Cracked or not, Casement was confident that a victorious Germany would benignly liberate Ireland. He made his way to Berlin, where he soon found that the German government consisted of "swine and cads." His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans and dragoon them into fighting the British proved a wretched fiasco-and even his hosts showed their distaste for the notion of tampering with soldiers' loyalties. In the days of Verdun and Jutland, there were, after all, 250,000 Irish volunteers fighting...
Jewett said he was worried that the decrease in scholarship applications might indicate a partial failure in his attempt to recruit qualified candidates from low income groups...
William R. Corson, the newest recruit, stands in curious contrast to his brethren. A retired Marine Corps colonel-a veteran of World War II, Korea, Viet Nam and duties with the CIA - he is a clean-shaven, shorthair type. His level stare could still panic any ex-G.I. who meets him with shoes unpolished. But Corson's bill of particulars against the republic is far from novel. In fact, it is sobering to recognize how closely his analysis resembles that of the New Left six or seven years ago, minus the hysterical rhetoric...
Even at the height of his popularity, Richard Nixon was never "big at the box office," as one New York book editor puts it. As a result, publishers have not rushed to recruit past or present White House aides for books about the President. One exception was William Morrow & Co. of Manhattan. Last February, when Nixon still rode high, Morrow signed a $250,000 contract with William Safire for a book giving his insider's view as a speechwriter during the President's first term. Safire, the resident White House wit until he resigned to become...
...once agreed to help his best friend, Al Cowlings, repair a rocky romance with Marguerite Whitley. O.J. juked overtime on that task. When the University of Arizona offered Recruit Prospects Cowlings and Simpson the use of a rented car, Simpson ended up driving Marguerite around town. Before long, Marguerite and O.J. were married. Yet Cowlings today still considers Simpson his best friend...