Word: rejoins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweltering evening, the shouts from the union hall on Kansas City's Main Street could be heard almost a block away. There was a crash of glass, and some bodies hurtled out onto the tile roof. One man dropped to the lawn, then dashed back upstairs to rejoin the fighting. Congressmen Leonard Irving, who is also president and business agent of Kansas City's Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union (A.F.L.), was talking things over with his rank & file...
Coach Barnaby's lineup for the weekend games will be essentially the same one that trimmed Wesleyan 8 to 1 Wednesday. The only exception is that Milt Heath, number six man, will not journey to Penn but will rejoin the team in Princeton...
...year-old veteran of the Soviet zone's uranium mines. He was still wearing his dark blue miner's cap with its little aluminum shield of crossed hammers. Oskar was taken by the Russians almost two years ago, as he was traveling toward East Prussia to rejoin his family. The Reds sent him to the mining camp at Aue. He has worked there since, rising at 1:30 every morning, traveling two hours by rail to the closely guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon for his daily meal of watery soup and monthly wage...
...Another patient was Richard Hillary, who wrote his highly acclaimed reminiscences of Oxford and the war, Falling Through Space and The Last Enemy, in the hospital, left to rejoin the R.A.F. and was shot down in action six weeks later. His heroics inspired Arthur Koestler's essay, The Birth of a Myth...
...following in the steps of Louis Budenz, who had quit as managing editor of New York's Daily Worker (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945) to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church, Convert Hyde took along his two children. His wife, a Communist for ten years, also quit the party. Said Hyde: "It became obvious to me that the movement for which I had fought and worked so long was destroying those very freedoms and decencies for which it claimed to be fighting. . . . Communism was incapable of providing a cure for an extremely sick world. My growing disillusionment led me to seek...