Word: assist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PEACE: "We shall be ready to intervene, where an opportunity presents itself, in order to assist the contending parties to find honorable and fraternal solutions for their disputes...
...years the Sixth Amendment has guaranteed that every person accused of a crime shall have "the assist ance of counsel for his defense." Yet millions of Americans have been largely or wholly deprived of that right. For one thing, the Sixth Amendment was long held to apply only to the federal courts. State courts were allowed to settle for lower standards, and the poverty of most criminal defendants only made matters worse. Each year 300,000 persons are charged with serious crimes in state courts, said a recent American Bar Association report. "At least half of these persons cannot afford...
...unity-seeking Netherlands. Last April in Amsterdam, for example, a Dutch Jesuit and a Lutheran minister presided over the wedding of the minister's daughter to a Catholic boy in a Lutheran church. Dutch Catholic Bishop Willem Bekkers of 's-Hertogenbosch has twice allowed Reformed pastors to assist Catholic priests at mixed marriages; the couples promised only to bring up their children as "Christians...
Part of the money for reprinting will come from the interest of a bequest left to the English Department by Rollins at his doath in 1958. Rollins wanted the department to assist the Press in publishing scholarly works on English literature. At least six books have already benefited from his gift...
Fidel Castro must have laughed till he split his fatigues. Incredibly, disastrously, Manolo Ray, the Cuban freedom fighter who had promised to be operating inside Cuba by May 20, was exposed as a bungling amateur. Worse, Fidel did not have to lift a finger. The British, with an assist from the U.S. Coast Guard, put the damper on what was surely the most ludicrous act yet in the endless, tragicomic opera of anti-Castro moves...