Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, China's indefatigable Premier saw Generalissimo Stalin twice - with "most gratifying" results, said well-informed sources. He conferred three times with Ambassador Harriman. He was wined & dined by Molotov. He went to a performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The audience claqued thunderously for his benefit...
...Broad-Minded. Willie and Joe, speaking their sardonic mouthfuls, usually say what youthful Bill Mauldin himself has to say on the subject of war. But in a book (Up Front, published this week) written around them, Mauldin has added further remarks, for the benefit of those civilians who find Willie and Joe a little bewildering. He explains: "I haven't tried to picture this war in a big, broad-minded way. I'm not old enough to understand what it's all about...
Similarly, Labor suggests increasing Government expenditure for housing, health, education, etc., by some $7.6 billion a year for the benefit of the low income groups...
...first scoring jamboree was accomplished without the benefit of much lusty slugging. A walk and two successive errors by the Bruin hurler had the third well started before Art Conlon's single to right, followed by a double steal, did the bulk of the scoring...
Hofer maintained stoutly that everything was destined for museums and for the benefit of the German people, and that everything was legally acquired. The story does not stand up. For. one thing, in some photograph albums of Göring's various homes, notably Karinhall near Berlin, you will see most of the paintings hung on Goring's very private walls. For another thing, Hofer's own story makes it clear that, despite all sorts of legalistic shenanigans, it was generally the pressure of Göring's name and station that finally closed the deal...