Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight Far Eastern public officials are participating in a new University fellowship program to assist "new states" in planning their economic development...
...Anschluss, when Brownshirts clomped into his apartment and Jones, thanks to extraordinary maneuvering, appeared by chartered plane from Prague, did Freud agree to go to England. To arrange the trip it took three months and all of Jones's influence with highly placed Britons, plus an assist from U.S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood the journey well, and he was received in London like a conqueror-as befitted a man who during the trip had dreamed that...
...Syria's Soviet-armed leaders, "perhaps unwittingly," might be led by "an abnormal sense of power" into attacking their Arab neighbors. Dulles warned the Syrians-"This is risky business"-and he quoted the action passage of the Eisenhower Doctrine. "The U.S. is prepared to use armed forces to assist any nation or group of nations requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international Communism...
Five well-know ministers from different denominations were to assist Peabody--among them Edward Everett Hale and Phillips Brooks. Each of the University Preachers conducted daily prayers and Sunday services for six weeks, and held daily office hours in Wadsworth House for consultation with students...
...said Sugar's soft-spoken manager, George Gainford. "Practicing bobbing and weaving. We know what to do about that. Look at his face. He's been hit plenty, so why can't Robby hit him? When the fight's over, why I'll assist Mr. Basilio's manager to pick his man up off the canvas...