Word: abets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps and through the revolving doors of the Hotel du Pare. Not a sound came from the crowd. They were not there to pay tribute. They were there out of morbid curiosity. They, like millions of other Frenchmen, could guess what final cruelties and betrayals Laval would abet - if Adolf Hitler willed it. They knew Laval would stop at nothing to assure a German victory. Laval had said (in a letter quoted by the journalist Pertinax, who estimated that 90% of the French people are pro-British): "I fully realize that the hangman will quickly take care...
...Priests should abet "good, clean" labor unions in organizing, cooperate in every way with them. They should also help employers to organize...
What American histories of the Revolutionary War period would Mr. Roberts recommend to one who has an "anger" against history instructors that abet historical distortion...