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Word: assisters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understandable after all the frenetic activity-nodding out in class. Aficionados of Hollywood bad taste will have much to cherish in Making It, but nothing will please them so much as the scene in which the Tabori character feels closer to his mother after he is forced to assist at her abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shedding Darkness On the Youth Culture | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Last week, the Council voted to have City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53 draft an ordinance establishing a rent control advisory board to assist Corkery. Following a motion by Councillor Edward A. Crane, the Council suggested that Cronin confer with Corkery before drafting the ordinance...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: Tenants Challenge Rent Standard | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Federal statutes, for example, which direct U.S. military battalions to assist local police, blend almost imperceptibly into a pattern of martial law. By act of Congress, the federal government might have declared martial law this week in the District of Columbia. But why bother? The President could have more easily have announced a 24-hour curfew that would almost void every safeguard in the Bill of Rights. Such a momentous step requires no statutory authority and needs no legal warrant other than the President's good faith. It would be possible to challenge this catch-all power only...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Law Defoliating the Constitution | 5/5/1971 | See Source »

Pentagon officials announced yesterday their plans to defend the city. According to a Pentagon statement, about 500 members of the 519th Military Police Battalion, seven Army Helicopters and troops from seven bases throughout the mid-South are on call to "assist local civilian law enforcement authorities...

Author: By Michael S. Feldberg, | Title: D.C. Braces for March | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

Civil Affairs units are Reserve units of the U.S. Army specially trained to "advise and assist" in the civil administration of countries where the United States is, or might be, militarily involved...

Author: By R. MICHAEL Kaus, | Title: Reservists Attack Military Lobby; Picket Convention This Weekend | 5/1/1971 | See Source »

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