Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...third time, lurching, monolithic Primo Camera, who pushed his way to the world's boxing championship seven years ago, was rejected for service in the Italian Army. Heavyweight Camera tried to enlist as a parachutist, was told no ordinary parachute would float his 292 pounds...
...angry, but when he got mad he stayed mad: public slurs had been circulated about his wife, his father, his family. He began giving each train-platform audience a history of each of them-his father's belligerent advocacy of civil liberties, his father's attempt to enlist in 1917 at the age of 60, his mother's years of work in the Red Cross, his sister's wartime Government work as a translator of confidential war documents, his own enlistment, that of his oldest brother Robert, the war work of another brother in airplane manufacture...
...Shirley, Tenn., a slight, brown-eyed farm boy bade his widowed mother, Postmistress Daily Hull, goodby, hitchhiked 90 miles to Knoxville to enlist in the U. S. Army. Told because he was only 20 that he needed his parent's consent, he hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother didn't exactly want me to sign up, but she didn't make much of a fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained...
...United States, seven long years ago, declared a state of emergency, and called for united action against the economic and social ills that afflicted "one-third of a nation." Back in those days, if memory serves correctly, many Harvard Alumni did not see it that way. Harvard did not enlist in that war with unanimity. Many thought that it was much more important to balance the budget...
Many of the same persons who refuse to enlist in the war to save democracy by peaceful means are now attacking freedom of discussion in our universities. Two such offences are enough to raise serious suspicion. We may put our confidence in the ability of these men to arm the nation, but we will never let them seize the sole right to speak, think, and act for American democracy...