Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie went ahead, with an assist from Joe, who told his boys not to argue, just vote. Said Martin: "An umpire just calls a ball a ball. He doesn't stop to explain that it's high and outside or low and inside. That's what you should do." Halleck won his farm-bill gamble, but his driving tactics eventually stirred up some resentment among the hard-pressed troops. "Charlie is holding our feet to the fire too much," carped one G.O.P. Congressman. The resentment converged on the President's health-reinsurance plan. Deciding that...
...news out of Britain this week is that Winston Churchill has given up his long hopes of a "parley at the summit" with Malenkov soon. His most influential Cabinet advisers talked him out of it-with an unexpected assist from, of all people, Vyacheslav Molotov...
...Tassman who asked him for the dossiers, explained O'Sullivan, said he wanted them to "circumvent the bad press" in Australia. O'Sullivan insisted that he prepared them only to "assist international relationships," had no idea that they might be used to help the Russians recruit new agents. But there was no doubt in the Communists' mind about O'Sullivan's helpfulness. In secret messages from Moscow, testified Petrov, O'Sullivan was referred to by the Russian code name Zemlyak (i.e., fellow countryman). Furthermore, added Petrov, Rex Chiplin, an Australian reporter who works...
...stopped my car and went over to assist the occupants . . . After assuring myself that no one was injured and being told by the gentleman who had been driving . . . that I could not be of assistance, I left my name and address and departed...
This, said Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons, is not a threat to Ally France, but an assist to another ally, Germany. "The Federal Republic of Germany is willing and anxious to cooperate with the Western world, and it is right that she should do so on a footing of equality...