Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes almost ruined George's basketball career before it began. He got a cold shoulder from Notre Dame's basketball men, might never have made the grade at De Paul in normal times. But Coach Ray Meyer was hard pressed for a center. Meyer drove his clumsy recruit through dozens of daily dozens, interspersed with rope-skipping, shadow-boxing and whatever else might develop coordination until Mikan cried: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Slowly Mikan's muscles learned to obey. The onetime marble-shooting champion of Will County, Ill. eventually got the hang of shooting...
Dean Burwell's report indicated a divergence from traditional practice stating that "the Medical School will not ask individuals to apply for these fellowships, but will itself take the responsibility of seeking men out and attempting to recruit them for academic medicine...
President Conant also said that the veterans with the most brains and initiative will probably be those most dissatisfied with academic formalities and most tempted to go directly into outside work. To recruit these men for professional training, it will be necessary to eliminate some formal credit requirements, provide an intensified year-round program of study, and telescope college and graduate professional studies, his report stated...
...given 17 weeks of basic recruit training. Picked men get additional specialized, technical or officer training. Then they are shipped overseas in a casual company, put in a replacement depot for sorting over, finally sent to the manpower stockpile for eventual use as tankmen, artillerymen, infantrymen-whatever they have been tagged. Between induction call and combat may be only ten months...
...York, Albany, Newport and Boston admired was George Eliot. He studied her works, wrote essays about her, sent her autographed copies of his first two books. When, at 26, he went to England to live, in 1869, he was taken to visit her as solemnly as a promising recruit led into the presence of the general. It was a doleful experience. George Eliot sat glum and uncommunicative, old, cold, heavy and slow. The only sign of life she showed was when James was leaving. Then she said he must have something to read on the long journey back to London...