Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were dialing numbers at random from a Marblehead apartment to get the wailing "wrong number" tone, which they were trying to record on tape, when they found that they had contacted an "inward operator" in Boston. The inward operator, whose job it is to assist other operators in completing long distance calls, had no way of knowing from where they were calling and, apparently assuming they were telephone company officials or repairmen, connected them with any Boston number they desired...
Three in a Bed. Surgeon Sulfridge, who often has to make do without electric power or running water, has three Vietnamese nurses (two women, one man) to assist him. He makes rounds with an interpreter and is lucky to have one-many project doctors have to elicit symptoms and give instructions by sign language. Like all newly arrived Americans, he was appalled at first by the filth and overcrowding in the wards, with two or three patients in a single dirty bed. Within 48 hours he was performing as many as seven major operations a day, was so immersed...
Keith Hutchinson added Harvard's last goal at the ten-minute mark to delay the traditional appearance of the white handkerchiefs. Leary again got the assist to give him a season total of 34 points and the team's scoring honors...
...Leary got four points in the period and two goals and two assists. Steve Neubert chipped in two goals and an assist, including one great quickstick of a Leary pass. First midfielders Dex Newton and Jan Bollinger added the other...
...associate directors, but Chapman defines their role as merely "a magnified version of the Faculty advisers to the old Harvard Dramatic Club." Occasionally the Faculty advisers direct or act in a show. Otherwise, according to Chapman, they are there to let the students do what they want, and to assist them...