Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Differences. Although conceived partly in anger at the U.S., Adenauer's campaign got a big if inadvertent assist from Washington when Secretary of State Dulles, enthusiastically approving plans for more European unity, also told his press conference that the U.S. differed with Britain and France on some "fundamental things," particularly colonialism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and that in the years to come the U.S. would not give 100% support to either the colonial powers or the new anticolonial Afro-Asian powers. Even in London Dulles' candor caused outspoken anger, and in France U.S. prestige sank. Already disillusioned...
...York City thus became the nation's Democratic stronghold, and (with a valuable assist from the Democratic-oriented Liberal Party) remains so today. Of the city's 8,000,000 total population, some 5,000,000 are members of minority groups-and the vast majority have kept faith with the Democratic Party. Drawing on that faith, Democratic candidates can frequently win pluralities of more than 600,000 votes in New York City (Averell Harriman carried the city by 698,000 for governor...
...Swan. Grace Kelly in a royal courtship gets a witty assist from Actor Alec Guinness and Playwright Ferenc Molnar (TIME, April...
Belgrave's wife, to the horror of Bahrein's purdah-loving elders but with a behind-the-scenes assist from Sheik Hamed's No. i wife, won permission to open a school for girls. In a series of bitter struggles with the usurers and dhow owners, who had long run the Bahrein waterfront, Belgrave reorganized the pearl-diving industry and gradually won Bahrein a lucrative reputation as the only honest transshipment port in the Middle East...
...Swan. Grace Kelly in a royal courtship gets a witty assist from Actor Alec Guinness and Playwright Ferenc Molnar (TIME, April...