Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Traubel, Wagnerian soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, got an operatic assist from Circusman Robert Ringling, who sent her a hand-picked horse to dress up horsy Gotterdammerung. Diva Traubel got the Wagnerian score and the horse together, but the horse just looked baffled (see cut); he didn't know the score...
...prosperity, and at the same time to aid in the restoration and expansion of world markets and to contribute thereby to world peace and world security. We shall continue our efforts to provide relief from the devastation of war, to alleviate the suffering of displaced persons, to assist in reconstruction and development, and to promote the expansion of world trade...
...United Nations Charter, nations entrusted with the care of dependent peoples are pledged "to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of advancement...
...View. Explained Jimmy Byrnes: George Atcheson had submitted "a broad and thoughtful analysis of the [China] situation as it appeared to him ... an honest effort to assist the Department of State in the formulation of its future policy." John Service had written, in "forceful language" and with some "rather drastic" conclusions, "recommendations for a basic change in U.S. policy" toward Chiang's Government. But this, purred Jimmy Byrnes, was merely one foreign-service man's view, expressed through the proper channels...
...central intelligence agency and research agency to assist the council. The great need of such agencies was one matter on which Army & Navy vehemently agreed