Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Kumchon area where the Philippine Republic's 10th Combat Team was carrying out its first combat patrols against bypassed North Koreans. A new M-ration, which, in accordance with Moslem dietary laws, contains no pork, was being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers of the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade were battling their way toward the Yalu River...
...first meeting of the Student Apathy League since early in 1940 finally took place yesterday, president Norman E. Andrews '51 was forced to admit yesterday. The group has a membership of "quite a few" undergraduates who haven't bothered to join any other extracurricular activity. "We don't know how many," said Andrews, "exactly...
...Manchurian border was well started. Six hours after the air drop, the R.O.K. 6th Division had linked up with the paratroopers, was rolling northwest from Sunchon. Next day, while 1,800 more paratroopers jumped in to reinforce the Sunchon area, 1st Cavalry Division spearheads raced up from Pyongyang to join the airborne units. Supported by the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, the cavalrymen and paratroopers began to move up the west coast...
...visit to Oxford, planted a tree and declared the Imperial Forestry Institute a going concern. A new car for Princess Elizabeth arrived, a dark green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with radio, air conditioning unit and make-up compartment. Up from Malta came father Philip to join the family in the white-and-gold music room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York...
...boys grow older, the differences between the delinquents and non-delinquents become even more obvious. The delinquents become defiant, suspicious, more independent, restless, vivacious and extroverted. They join street gangs (56%), while their counterparts almost never do (0.6%). They spend a lot of their time on waterfronts, in pool rooms and dance halls. While two-thirds of the non-delinquents accept the idea of school without fuss, only 11% of the delinquents do-nearly half want to stop as soon as possible...