Word: assists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More conspicuous than the lack of reform movement was the lack of an atmosphere where anyone would even take the idea of reform seriously. Fearing a "bloody revolution" from below, Mirza convinced Ayub that it was necessary to replace the inept democratic regime with a "benign martial law to assist the civil power to clean up this mess...
Fairbank called for "a real intellectual effort in the United States" to assist in buiding "modern Chinese institutions" in the island. He expressed hope in the gradual development of an electoral process in Taiwan...
...military government of General Mohammed Ayub Khan last week sent shivers of fear through the officials of the deposed administration. Describing his rule under President Iskander Mirza as "a benign martial law to assist the civil power clean up this mess," the General offhandedly announced that the maximum penalty for concealing food stocks is death. The results were awe-inspiring. Ex-Premier Malik Firoz Khan Noon, said the government, admitted that he was holding 3,000 tons of wheat in his private warehouse. Two other ex-ministers hurriedly told the government that they had wheat hoards of 6,250 tons...
...Young Democrat Club will not assist the Liberal Union in its fund raising drive to rebuild Clinton High School," Jay F. Leary '60, H.Y.D.C. Secretary, said last night. "The Club merely wants to go on record on the matter," he added...
Representatives from the Cambridge Red Cross disaster squad, led by Edward Crane '35, arrived shortly after the blaze broke out to assist units from the Salvation Army in passing out coffee and doughnuts to firemen chilled by cold water and a 49 degree temperature...