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1 recruit
rə'kru:t
1. noun1) (a person who has (just) joined the army, air force etc.) recluta2) (a person who has (just) joined a society, group etc: Our party needs new recruits before the next election.) nuevo miembro
2. verb(to cause to join the army, a society etc: We must recruit more troops; Can't you recruit more members to the music society?) reclutar; conseguir (miembros)recruit1 n reclutarecruit2 vb reclutartr[rɪ'krʊːt]1 (soldier) recluta nombre masculino; (to group) nuevo miembro, nuevo componente nombre masculino; (to company) nuevo,-a empleado,-a, nuevo fichaje nombre masculinorecruit [ri'kru:t] vt: reclutarrecruit n: recluta mfn.• recluta s.f.v.• alistar v.• alistar reclutas v.• enganchar v.• enristrar v.• reclutar v.• restablecerse v.rɪ'kruːt
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a) ( Mil) recluta mfb) ( new member)the latest recruits to the club/staff — los nuevos socios del club/miembros del personal
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transitive verb ( Mil) reclutar; \<\<members/volunteers\>\> reclutar; \<\<staff\>\> contratar
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via) \<\<army\>\> alistar reclutas; \<\<company\>\> buscar* personal, reclutar genteb) recruiting pres p <agent/office> de reclutamiento[rɪ'kruːt]1.N (Mil) recluta mf ; (to organization) adquisición fJanet is our latest recruit — hum Janet es nuestra última adquisición or nuestro último fichaje *
new recruit — (Mil) nuevo recluta; (to organization) nuevo(-a) m / f
raw recruit — (Mil) quinto m, soldado mf raso; (fig) novato(-a) m / f
2. VT1) (=enlist) (Mil) reclutar; [+ staff] contratar; [+ new members] buscar2) (=obtain, seek out) [+ help] reclutar; [+ talent] buscar3.VI (Mil) alistar reclutas; (Comm) reclutar gente* * *[rɪ'kruːt]
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a) ( Mil) recluta mfb) ( new member)the latest recruits to the club/staff — los nuevos socios del club/miembros del personal
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transitive verb ( Mil) reclutar; \<\<members/volunteers\>\> reclutar; \<\<staff\>\> contratar
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via) \<\<army\>\> alistar reclutas; \<\<company\>\> buscar* personal, reclutar genteb) recruiting pres p <agent/office> de reclutamiento -
2 Guarda Nacional Republicana
(GNR)The Republican National Guard is Portugal's national highway and traffic police, and forms its rural and urban constabulary. A paramilitary force, it was established in 1911, under the First Republic, to protect the novice regime in the capital and other main cities. While it was recruited from the career army officer corps and noncommissioned ranks, the GNR was based on a historic precedent (the monarchy had a life guard with similar functions) and a political necessity (the need to be a deterrent and bulwark against threatening army insurrections) during a time of political instability. With increasingly heavy weaponry, a much enlarged GNR became a source of controversy as the First Republic ended and the military dictatorship was established (1926-33) and grew into the Estado Novo. The Estado Novo eventually reduced its strength, but maintained it as a reserve force that might confront a potentially unreliable army in the capital and main cities and towns. Since the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the GNR has been used as a kind of state police. Its personnel can be seen in their distinctive uniforms, dealing with highway safety, traffic, the drug problem, and serious crimes. While the main headquarters is at Carmo barracks (Carmo Square), Lisbon, where Prime Minister Marcello Caetano surrendered to the Armed Forces Movement on 25 April 25 1974, GNR detachments are found all over the country.Historical dictionary of Portugal > Guarda Nacional Republicana
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3 Braun, Wernher Manfred von
[br]b. 23 March 1912 Wirsitz, Germanyd. 16 June 1977 Alexandria, Virginia, USA[br]German pioneer in rocket development.[br]Von Braun's mother was an amateur astronomer who introduced him to the futuristic books of Jules Verne and H.G.Wells and gave him an astronomical telescope. He was a rather slack and undisciplined schoolboy until he came across Herman Oberth's book By Rocket to Interplanetary Space. He discovered that he required a good deal of mathematics to follow this exhilarating subject and immediately became an enthusiastic student.The Head of the Ballistics and Armaments branch of the German Army, Professor Karl Becker, had asked the engineer Walter Dornberger to develop a solid-fuel rocket system for short-range attack, and one using liquid-fuel rockets to carry bigger loads of explosives beyond the range of any known gun. Von Braun joined the Verein für Raumschiffsfahrt (the German Space Society) as a young man and soon became a leading member. He was asked by Rudolf Nebel, VfR's chief, to persuade the army of the value of rockets as weapons. Von Braun wisely avoided all mention of the possibility of space flight and some financial backing was assured. Dornberger in 1932 built a small test stand for liquid-fuel rockets and von Braun built a small rocket to test it; the success of this trial won over Dornberger to space rocketry.Initially research was carried out at Kummersdorf, a suburb of Berlin, but it was decided that this was not a suitable site. Von Braun recalled holidays as a boy at a resort on the Baltic, Peenemünde, which was ideally suited to rocket testing. Work started there but was not completed until August 1939, when the group of eighty engineers and scientists moved in. A great fillip to rocket research was received when Hitler was shown a film and was persuaded of the efficacy of rockets as weapons of war. A factory was set up in excavated tunnels at Mittelwerk in the Harz mountains. Around 6,000 "vengeance" weapons were built, some 3,000 of which were fired on targets in Britain and 2,000 of which were still in storage at the end of the Second World War.Peenemünde was taken by the Russians on 5 May 1945, but by then von Braun was lodging with many of his colleagues at an inn, Haus Ingeburg, near Oberjoch. They gave themselves up to the Americans, and von Braun presented a "prospectus" to the Americans, pointing out how useful the German rocket team could be. In "Operation Paperclip" some 100 of the team were moved to the United States, together with tons of drawings and a number of rocket missiles. Von Braun worked from 1946 at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, and in 1950 moved to Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. In 1953 he produced the Redstone missile, in effect a V2 adapted to carry a nuclear warhead a distance of 320 km (199 miles). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 and recruited von Braun and his team. He was responsible for the design of the Redstone launch vehicles which launched the first US satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958, and the Mercury capsules of the US manned spaceflight programme which carried Alan Shepard briefly into space in 1961 and John Glenn into earth orbit in 1962. He was also responsible for the Saturn series of large, staged launch vehicles, which culminated in the Saturn V rocket which launched the Apollo missions taking US astronauts for the first human landing on the moon in 1969. Von Braun announced his resignation from NASA in 1972 and died five years later.[br]Bibliography1981, with F.L.Ordway, History of Rocketry and Space TravelFurther ReadingP.Marsh, 1985, The Space Business, Penguin. J.Trux, 1985, The Space Race, New English Library. T.Osman, 1983, Space History, Michael Joseph.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Braun, Wernher Manfred von
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