Word: assist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They are worried sick, as usual. To hasten an investigation, the Pentagon taps General Dana Andrews who arrives with an anxious look and a portfolio full of top-brass clichés. His comely daughter (Anne Francis), as Bug's resident bunny, does what she can to assist former U.S. Intelligence Officer George Maharis, whose ticklish assignment is to save the world. Before Maharis can track down the crazed millionaire behind the bacilli scare, Florida has been decimated by botulinus. Maharis endures sundry perils prior to a climactic wrestling match in a helicopter high above Los Angeles...
...University Health Services, which has made public its desire to assist anyone involved with drugs, asserted this week that it entered the case only after it had been discovered by disciplinary officials...
...subversion. Their strategy, aimed at fomenting guerrilla-style "wars of national liberation," was adopted at a top-level meeting in Havana last winter at which the Soviet leadership yielded to pressure from Castroites to abandon its via pacifica policy of nonviolent penetration in Latin America. Moscow agreed to assist and finance Fidel Castro's program to "export the revolution." Havana's General Directorate of Intelligence, which has already trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans in combat and propaganda techniques, has stepped up its activities. U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann says: "It's going...
...destiny of the world, and to metaphysics, which philosophically defines the Creator as some kind of First Cause or Prime Mover. In other words, the world has been "defatalized," and has become the task and responsibility of man alone. Instead of deploring this trend, the church should welcome and assist it by supporting rapid social change. This will mean, Cox warns, a restructuring of its essential tasks: kerygma (proclaiming God's message), diakonia (service) and koinonia (creating a community). In technopolis, the message of the church is to proclaim those secular events and movements "where God's reconciliation...
...multicepts"-cepts so basic they can be applied in many courses and to almost any historical period-may turn up among them, although Tenner has been able to identify only 17 kilocepts during his four years at Princeton. Examples: "A determinist creed induces not fatalism, but the will to assist in the accomplishment of some irresistible destiny"; "Obscure third-rate thinkers are historically more important than great thinkers...