Word: abet
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...they can have their university without two-thirds of its faculty." At Mercer University in Macon, Emory University History Professor Bell Ervin Wiley, lecturing on Robert E. Lee, said: "It is inconceivable that Lee, if he were alive today, would advocate resistance to national authority or in any way abet social turmoil or racial hatred...
...segregationists' outspoken readiness to abet the world's impression of a racist U.S. amazed the Africans. Said Economist Maina: "They had no worry about the country, just their local situation...
...placed the preferred stock on a current-dividend basis and let Alleghany's cash board build up. His reluctance to put Alleghany's cash to work caused a break with the Murchisons, as well as Young's widow who sold her stock to the Murchisons to abet their proxy battle...
...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...