Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remembrances of my boyhood were brought back to me by your quoting of the recollections of the Hon. George Leader's father, Mr. Guy Leader. He reminisced as to how he had to assist in poultry husbandry of the baby chicks and "to remove tapeworms from their throats by the use of a hair from the tail of a horse [TIME, Nov. 15]." Like him, I too often watched my mother perform a similar operation, [but] the only parasite my dear Republican mother was ever able to extract from the chick's throat was gapeworms...
This line is intended to suggest that Joe is the mainspring of antisubversion activities and that such efforts stop when his energies are turned elsewhere. In fact, during the last nine months the Eisenhower Administration-with nary an assist (or an acknowledgment) from Joe-has achieved the following...
...Bikini A-bomb tests demonstrated what an atomic bomb could do to an old-style naval task force, U.S. admirals have been contemplating their naval strategy in an attempt to define the Navy's place in modern atomic war. Oddly enough, the hydrogen bomb gave them an unexpected assist: even land-based airmen recognized that a Russian H-bomb attack could be devastating to U.S. airfields, saw virtue in a mobile, seagoing air power capable of delivering atomic attack from unexpected directions...
Through correspondent banks the banker can make money available to his depositors anywhere in the world. He performs a multitude of other miscellaneous services which will assist the customer in carrying out his business or in taking trips or journeys...
Palamountain, who became senior tutor in 1951, planned to go to Wesleyan this September. It is believed that he stayed on, however, to assist the new Adams Housemaster, Reuben A. Brower. Brower took over the post this year, succeeding the late David M. Little...