Word: abets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases like that of the fourteen year-old, the ABC must seek to secure greater social responsibility, both from liquor dealers and from the general public. Under existing practices, many people, antagonized by the ABC's behavior, sympathetically abet what they consider "oppressed" youth. The surest way of insuring public confidence is a more practical approach toward such minor matters as the eleven o'clock beer. Another measure which would secure greater public confidence would be to lower the age limit to eighteen, at least on relatively harmless wines and beers, if not on hard liquors...
...Birds and the Bees (Paramount] abet the growing suspicion that Hollywood is engaged in a Machiavellian plot to destroy television by sabotaging TV's best comics. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were the victims in last month's Forever Darling. This time, George Gobel walks the plank. Since the essence of Gobel's comedy is intellectual, The Birds and the Bees cunningly makes its jokes as physical as possible: Gobel takes pratfalls on land and sea, at home and abroad. When he isn't getting pie in the face, he is compelled to read limp double...
...Voluntary health-insurance plans face bankruptcy or drastic cutbacks unless current abuses are stopped, said incoming President John R. Thompson Jr. of the Tennessee State Medical Association. He charged: patients seek more benefits than the plans are designed to provide, and doctors abet them...
...abet reckless spirits, the CRIMSON offers today its suggestions for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday courses and will consider Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday courses tomorrow...
Failure to use the privilege would necessitate that one give a public accounting of his political activities and ideas. I am not in the least bit ashamed of anything I have dons or thought. But to give such information is to aid and abet a political trend which has the characteristics of a national inquisition and which is repugnant to the spirit of the First Amendment. The practical effect of such a tread is to make freedom of speech and associating subject to the approval or surveillance, at least, of a group with a narrow set of ideas...