Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds in Government, if any, were safe. After nearly two years of tramping the nation, shouting that he was "rooting out the skunks," just how many Communists has Joe rooted out? The answer: none. At best, he might claim an assist on three minor and borderline cases which Government investigators had already spotted. Joe tries to include himself in by saying: "We got Alger Hiss...
...cotton crop will be worth $165 million this year (last pre-ECA crop: $25 million); wheat, $535 million. The ECA people would have you believe it's the Marshall Plan that has done it. The Turkish Democratic Party says it's their doing. Both acknowledge a valuable assist from Allah, who brought rains at just the right time during the growing season. Most of the $294 million of Marshall Plan aid has been passed on to the farmer: 6,468 tractors, 3,242 disk plows, 6,176 tractor-drawn plows, 4,258 disk harrows...
Explaining that the Congress has the right to investigate any grievance, condition or situation in the interests of legislating and supervising the government's executive branch, Colegrove wrote that "Good citizenship also means that citizens should assist legislative committees by frank and honest testimony. Indeed they cannot legally do other than that when called to testify under oath...
...opinions of '54 on the workload, the relative value of lectures and reading, and the quality of professors and section men are distilled to assist the new generation in making up course schedules...
...your Aug. 20 article on Father Hofstee at Tala. When I first heard of him, a few years ago, he was living in a makeshift hut in the leper colony, eating canned goods that he cooked over a portable stove. I hope your article will inspire some readers to assist him in the tremendous task he has assumed of rehabilitating these unfortunate people...