Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOPLIFTER, a woman who has stolen a $6 dress from Filene's is on the stand, tears making muddy tracks on her smooth brown face. Everything about her is smooth, and I want to help her--that is it--there is no one in this court to help anyone else. We are all alone against the unreasoning command of the eyes. Someone else is crying, a whole family--the fattest woman I have ever seen, her daughters dressed in vinyl shoes, a three dollar skirt, and hair that was set the night before (she set it the night before...
...Kopans scored his team's only touchdown to help Dunster to a 7-0 decision over Stiles Morse. Adams routed Saybrook-Trumball, 16-0, as Sonny Black bulled his way in for two touchdowns. Adams athletic secretary Jody Markowski summed it up: "We overpowered them something terrible...
This passage, which evokes both Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the historic Queen Elizabeth (who were both barge owners), seemed to Pound as "too tum-te-tum at a stretch." Eliot fortunately could not help writing poetic poetry. His verse, as it was written, tum-te-tums today in many a mind, and the Boston lady's chair in that passage is still a "burnished throne...
...focal point of a lot of the band's activity," manager Whittemore said. "She could assert herself, since she's been with the band longer than anyone else, but she always asks permission to do things. She's a great help to a new manager. And she adds a very nice touch to the band--somebody not in authority, but someone you can count...
...then thankful, then obsessed, then lonely, and then sad. "I can't seem to do this," said a tall boy in corduroy pants and a bright polka dot shirt. "There isn't enough space. I wish we were on a football field." The leader of the group tried to help him, while the others paired off to express themselves...