His best friend is a military veteran, and had it not been for his own acting career, he may have enlisted himself – or, stayed enlisted, as it were.
When war came, he recruited volunteers for the Eighth Maine Regiment and enlisted himself.
In the story "Operators," Zeke, who works as a phone jockey at a ticket brokerage, is so consumed with jealousy when an old friend returns from the war that he enlists himself.
Erasmus enlisted himself in Froben's existing plan to publish the works of St. Jerome, taking full responsibility for the correspondence and agreeing to become the general editor for the whole project.
Marc Singer still finds it hard to believe that such an idle remark could have inspired his odyssey, one that led a 20-year-old who had never picked up a camera to live underground himself, enlist his fellow outcasts as his crew and put together an 84-minute, black-and-white documentary that won three awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Cheadle was even able to enlist jazz superstar Herbie Hancock, himself a former Miles Davis Quintet member, to score the film.
Soon the new tycoon finds himself enlisted in the fight against fascism.
Unless Bush is up to that, he will find himself enlisting in the McCain majority.
If that's a tricky balance to strike, he doesn't give much indication on the album, which he produced himself, enlisting first-call session players like the percussionist Lenny Castro and the drummer Vinnie Colaiuta.
