Word: abettor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easier to talk about the Apocalypse and to consult occult books than to admit that one is an abettor of disorder. . . . The Apocalypse is indulged as a fad now in order to avoid undertaking, in the face of the sickness of Europe, measures for public wellbeing. . . . Europe's bad conscience lends itself to playing up the Apocalypse. This is not what the Apocalypse is for . . .1 have no more reason to deny than I have to admit that we may have entered into those convulsions which, according to the Scriptures, precede the end of the intermediary period. What...
Perhaps even more vital was the attempt, in which Admiral Yamamoto could be only an abettor, to neutralize, by a land attack down Malaya, the spot at which the great Navies would join-Singapore...
Show's originator was Richmond's suave, scholarly Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, U. S. Ambassador to Argentina until he was switched to Spain last spring. Its organizer was shrewd, affable Director Thomas C. Colt Jr. of the Virginia Museum. Its able abettor was the State Department's new (1938) Division of Cultural Relations, formed to combat fascist penetration of Latin America, economic and intellectual, by organizing a Pan-American export trade in ideas. First of a series that may eventually include every nation south of the Rio Grande, the Argentine exhibition will tour the U. S. from coast...