Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paulo's influential Jornal da Tarde declared such a mass arrest of benefit only to those "who fight to install a totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint...
British bankers have a reputation for being a stuffy lot. In the words of a Board of Trade commission, they run their banks "as a club for the benefit of members, not the public." They keep the most bankerish of bankers' hours, charge high rates for their services, and send their customers statements only once every three months. Small wonder that most adult Britons assiduously avoid checking accounts...
...underscores the need to put strong liberals into the U.S. Senate. Such men can be counted on the hands and feet, but there is work to be done for them in Massachusetts (where none happens to be running) and even by non-voters. Tonight's "11 Votes for Peace" benefit qualifies on both counts...
...university," Harvard President James B. Conant observed at the opening of the Houghton, "is to act as a guardian of the cultural riches of the past. Our libraries and museums serve only in part our own students and our staff. To a large measure they are of benefit to the much greater world of scholars.... We are the servants of a community that extends far beyond these academic walls -- our responsibilities transcend both the immediate aims of this institution of learning and the days in which we live...
...films will be shown late this week or next week, and I think that last Thursday's films should be shown again. People are not playing esoteric Bauhaus games at the VAC. In many ways what is happening there is as exciting as anything at Harvard. All sides would benefit from knowing just what that excitement is and where it will...