Word: rejoins
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While studying at the University of Queensland, Burrows experienced a "divine compulsion" to rejoin the Army. Her leadership skills were evident at age 19, when her father suffered an asthma attack during worship services and Burrows coolly preached an impromptu sermon. Equipped with degrees in history and English and a graduate degree in education, Burrows spent 17 years as an educator in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). After leaving Africa in 1969, she served in England as an administrator and then was the territorial commander in Sri Lanka, Scotland and southern Australia...
...what can you do when the leader of the West is such a stickler for rules. So I cried to him, "Oh great arbiter of the West, please hear my cries. I pray to you have mercy (another great Western trait) on my soul and let me rejoin the just philosophical tradition that I learned at my mother's bosom. Your judgement is the right judgement Mr. President, and I obey your commands but now please reconsider. Please, pleeeze...." He didn't listen...
This week Bonner returns to Moscow, and then, presumably, will rejoin her husband in Gorky. Sakharov, a Nobel Peace laureate and leading human-rights activist, was abducted in 1980 from a Moscow street corner and eventually bundled off to the industrial city of Gorky. Bonner, for her part, tirelessly shuttled 250 miles to bring Sakharov food parcels, then returned to Moscow with his latest thoughts for Western journalists, who are barred from Gorky. In 1984 she was convicted of slandering the Soviet system and forced to join her husband in exile...
...French Communist Party newspaper that Sakharov, a nuclear physicist who helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb, could never leave the country because he was still privy to state secrets. Soon afterward, at a March reception in Washington, she voiced fears that the Soviets might not allow her to rejoin Sakharov. In April she told the Overseas Press Club that the West was the victim of a "flood of disinformation" from Moscow...
...center will be back on the second line after taking Fusco's place on the first line last weekend. He will rejoin left wing Ed Krayer and right wing Tim Barakett, who combined for three goals and three assists in Saturday's win over Colgate...