Word: benefactor
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...preceding months Trotsky had been deserted and renounced by some of his closest associates, including his Mexican protector and benefactor, the painter Diego Rivera. And in May, 1940, Trotsky's home was subjected to an armed-raid, apparently at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. Around 4 a.m. a group of assailants broke into Trotsky's home and pumped about 200 machine gun bullets into Trotsky's bedroom. Although the attack left him miraculously unharmed Trotsky became increasingly concerned about his own safety and the safety of his papers...
Wilson assumed control of his father's Haloid Company in 1946 and within two years had committed the company (now Xerox) completely to xerography. I proved to be one of the most successful industrial developments of the decade. He was cited as "an eminent industrial reader and exemplary benefactor of education and public causes...
...Lindbergh turned to Daniel Guggenheim, telling the philanthropist: "As far as I can tell, Goddard knows more about rockets than anybody else in the country," and "if we're ever going beyond airplanes and propellers, we'll probably have to go to rockets." Guggenheim, already a spirited benefactor of aeronautical progress, was convinced. During the 1930s, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation aided Goddard's work with $190,000 in grants, hardly enough to fuel a Saturn rocket today, but then enough to permit the Father of Modern Rocketry to build sophisticated systems that became the basis...
...guilty old friend Werle, who was also involved in the scandal but was acquitted for lack of evidence. In the last 15 years, both Ekdal and his father have built a new life on deception; Hjalmar has married, without knowing that his wife was once the mistress of his benefactor Werle, or that his daughter may in fact be Werle's child. Lt. Ekdal, the father, finds happiness in hunting, even though the only animals he hunts are tame rabbits in an attic...
Rapaport first aroused the enmity of the university administration in October, 1966, when he published an article exposing a conflict of interest on the part of Eugene B. Power, a large benefactor of the university who was then serving on its Board of Regents...