Word: helpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that beset the motorist the world over, drivers in Holland have one added hazard to contend with: the canals. An average of two cars a day slip their brakes, back into or otherwise plunge into the country's famed waterways. Last year, 100 drivers and passengers drowned before help arrived...
Japanese businessmen are slow to hire educated girls for decent positions. A girl college graduate says bitterly: "Yes, I can get a job in business, all right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...
Chile's main income source, copper, will greatly help Alessandri's program. Selling for 31½ ? per Ib. on the New York market last week, copper was a fat 6½ ? above last year's low-and each penny's increase in the copper price means an extra $10 million a year for Chile. Moreover, Alessandri, who was elected by a Conservative-Liberal coalition, has congressional support from the Radicals, most important of the oppositionists. Dancing with Princess Alexandra at a British embassy party, Bachelor Alessandri, 62, was a picture of relaxed confidence...
...provincial highway. Ten Mounties on foot kept a wary eye on more than 100 picketing loggers of the striking International Woodworkers of America, set on intercepting non-I.W.A. loggers. When the I.W.A. halted a sedan to threaten the four passengers in it, the Mounties radioed Grand Falls for help. More Mounties and provincial constables rushed to the scene. Police night sticks and loggers' crude clubs swung through the chilly air. Provincial Constable William J. Moss, 24, caught a blow on the head from a birch club, died in a hospital 30 hours later of a fractured skull...
...been removed from sane, sensible dialogue. It has been checkered with clichés, mired in sentimental mush, drowned in tears and flapdoodle ... If my remarks have hurt Brown, that can only prove that football is more sanctified than any of us has estimated. The only way to really help is to bring football back into the dialogue, to subject it to all the resources of the dialogue, including wit, humor, paradox...