Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students have almost no difficulty purchasing birth control devices in nearby stores or from private physicians, but the residents of Roxbury or Dorchester are not similarly privileged. The poor are seldom financially able to consult a private physician for birth control purposes, and state-supported welfare agencies refuse to help them in such matters. As a result they bear children they often cannot afford and do not want, or try to induce abortions by such dangerous means as soap or knitting needles...
Elizabeth's voice trembled. "I want two things. First, I want to help Mary, because I think she needs help." Mary was another of the old women and did, the boy agreed, look like she needed help. "And second," Elizabeth went on, "I want something for myself. I spend my life caring for people, and once in a while I would like someone to care about me." She started to cry softly...
Three other important things had happened Sunday night. First, the boy discovered that of the many incredibly beautiful girls in the dining room during dinner, all but one turned out to be staff, help, or waitresses. That one, however, was in the "More Joy" program; but the boy, after doing a couple of physical communication exercises with her, had a chance to talk to her and found out in order a) that she was six years older than he was, b) that she made him feel hopelessly insecure, and c) that she couldn't have been less interested. When...
...story of two of Shakespeare's most anonymous characters as they walk in and around the doings at Elsinre in Hamlet. The title characters of Stoppard's play, in case you have forgotten them, are two friends of Hamlet's from university days who are summoned by Claudius to help ascertain the nature of Hamlet's madness...
...idea of the questionnaire is to help the Biology Department decide what to do," Wilgus said, "not to start a revolt...