Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it meant recognition of the rebels. The Algerians retorted that they were interested only in negotiations based on "independence," not sovereignty. But French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau termed the tone of the Rabat offer "moderate," and Bourguiba, in a radio chat with his people, predicted that it would assist the "ripening" of cease-fire sentiment inside France...
...with a wonderfully silly assist from Mickey Rooney, the boys have their ball, and the rat gets caught in his own trap. Disguised as a private, Captain Kovacs races cross-country in an Army truck to break up the party, blissfully unaware that the truck is loaded with German prisoners. When the M.P.s, tipped off by Lemmon, accuse him of engineering an escape, Kovacs blusters and pulls rank. Alas, nobody will believe him, and he is hauled off to the stockade, a broken man who can only point piteously at a big, black, fiercely aggressive mustache that no longer seems...
Eugene Booth, professor of Physics at Columbia University, represented the Atomic Energy Commission with a few brief remarks to close the ceremony. James R. Killian, Jr., president of M.I.T., who was scheduled to speak and assist President Pusey in the ground-breaking, was unable to attend...
...first goal came on an assist by newly elected Captain Tadhg Sweeny. He passed to center Ng'weno, who booted the ball into the left corner of the goal. Ng'weno made the second score on a penalty kick a few moments later...
...front of Eliot when he noticed two men scuffling on the porch of the hall. At first, Pell said, he thought nothing of it, but as he noticed more fighting, he turned around to help the night watchman. Another Harvard student also appeared on the scene to assist...