Word: assistant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disadvantage: only candidates known to approve the Francophile government will be allowed on the ballot. But German propagandists, dramatizing themselves as the "repressed German underground," are infiltrating Saarbrücken, urging the German-speaking Saarlanders to protest the French "police state" by casting blank ballots. They got a welcome assist from the German Bundestag in Bonn, which cheered through a resolution declaring the Saar election illegal...
Saybrook's Bill Berkeley passed for two touchdowns, but got an assist from Adams' Jack King on one. With the score Adams 7, Saybrook 6, and 35 seconds left in the game, Berkeley passed into the end zone. King, trying to break up the play, batted the ball into the hands of Saybrook's Zab Zabrowski who made a sensational juggling catch. King scored the Adams touchdown on a 15-yard run. Tom Crump turned in a circus catch of a 30-yard King pass in the second period. Leaping high in the air, Crump knocked the ball from...
Whether in first aid or in climbing, ability is always vital. For instance, four men had to rush down 1000 ft. White Horse Ledge last weekend to assist in carrying to North Conway a hunter who had been shot...
...allies-Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, Australia and New Zealand-charged that U.S. tariff restrictions on imported dairy products are a flagrant violation of the worldwide General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). "It is incomprehensible," said a Danish delegate to GATT, "that the U.S. prefers to continue to assist us through dollar grants from the American taxpayer . . . instead of allowing us to pay in goods for dollars we urgently need to buy American products." The Dutch, even angrier, slapped a retaliatory tariff on U.S. flour imports...
...both outsize emeralds and ladies' hearts. Lawford has to interrupt these interesting pursuits temporarily when the police suspect him of being the Terror, a nasty fellow who slinks about skewering London bobbies on a three-foot sword. Disguising himself as a bobby, Lawford gives Scotland Yard an invaluable assist in tracking down the Terror, thereby further endearing himself to the police commissioner's beautiful daughter (Dawn Addams), whom he has already captivated with such gems of repartee as: "I think if a jewel thief looked at you, he'd never know what jewelry you were wearing...