Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Powerful Persuader. The President intends to take a strong hand in pushing his program up Capitol Hill next January. He plans to use a powerful persuader to assist him. If Congress balks or bogs down, Ike will simply step.up his schedule of speeches and TV appearances, and tell the public all about...
...Bilbao. Governor Riestra got a welcome assist from the unpredictable Spanish climate. Heavy rains broke the months-old drought; hydroelectric stations started humming. Workers recently laid off went back to their jobs-but not at Euskalduna. The steel plant's blustering, belligerent manager, Elisardo Bilbao, an employer misplaced from the 19th century, posted a notice in the Plaza de la Misericordia. It said: all those who struck are fired...
...Crimson began pressing in the second period, and finally tied it up at 14:36 when Captain Norm Wood passed out of a scramble at the blue line to Dick Clasby in front of the B.U. goal. Clasby slapped the puck past Bradley, with Frank Mahoney also getting an assist on the play. The same three collaborated again at 15:39 for Harvard's second score, This time Wood pushed in a loose puck after a Clasby rebound while Bradley was down...
...verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil agreed that "they quite obviously were not trying to help...
Aleksandr Boredin's first musical since Prince igor hit the boards in 1890 is an entertaining show, in spite of some remarkably shoddy ingredients. Unlike igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With a vigorous cootch dance, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "CAll me in the harom; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistringuishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adien without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind...