Word: abet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of direct subversion in writing Crisis of the Old Order, but it argues that his "socialistic" views unwittingly abet the communist conspiracy...
...Blues, music publisher, autobiographer (Father of the Blues), who became a songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...
Conservative voters chose among three slates of Conservative candidates; the Liberals had an official slate plus some splinter candidates. To abet this peacekeeping measure, the ruling military junta firmly banned the sale of liquor for three days, brought out tanks and troops in battle dress. Colombia counted it a historically peaceful poll. Joked a member of the junta: "Maybe we ought to have an election every Sunday...
...game is the first move in the varsity's back-handed bid for the Ivy League championship; the title will fall to the Crimson if it can whip Brown today and Yale next week, provided the Elis meanwhile abet the cause by defeating Princeton...
...criticized Dr. Oppenheimer on the grounds that he was an example of irresponsibility on the part of a prominent intellectual, and that his appointment as William James lecturer could only champion those groups which excuse and abet this kind of irresponsibility. The Pound controversy and Kamin-Furry fiasco are excellent illustrations of this. I do not in any way deny Dr. Oppenheimer's right to speak. I criticize his appointment as William James lecturer...