Word: helper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respect you for it." But when all the prisoners at "Q" deliberately snubbed unhappy James Watson, a spindly, mouse-eyed confessed murderer of seven wives, Dr. Stanley took pity. He made Bluebeard Jimmy a nurse in the TB ward, found him "a gentle, sympathetic man and a fine helper...
This direct approach has always made sense to Carrol Shanks. To get himself through school, he worked as a pipe fitter's helper, as a laborer in a brickyard, once bummed his way halfway across the U.S. in a freight car, taking odd jobs. He got an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1925, was hired by Prudential to help reorganize the bankrupt railroads in which the company had investments. Shanks later took over the job of employee relations, did so well that he was made executive vice president. He was made president of Prudential...
William Baird, a $50-a-week roofer's helper, and his wife Mary first became aware of the fate awaiting their family eleven years ago when Robert began to have trouble walking. Doctors warned then that his disease might turn up in the other boys. They offered no hope of prevention or cure. Nobody knows what causes muscular dystrophy. Doctors know only that it often appears among several male members of the same family and is probably the result of a recessive gene which suddenly flares into prominence. It produces almost no symptoms beyond deterioration of the muscles...
Bailey Everett White, plumber's helper in the town of Hobbs, N.Mex., went hunting one afternoon a fortnight ago. He shot three rabbits, brought the bag home to his wife to cook, sat down to supper. About four days later, he began to complain of pains in his stomach. Last week Hunter White was dead. His illness: bubonic plague, the dread, flea-borne disease which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages...
...movie keeps fairly close to Kipling's original plot. Kim is the orphaned son of a British officer in India, who roams around as an Indian boy "because they send white boys to school." As the helper of a traveling Lama, Kim becomes involved in the Great Game: Injuh. On the other team in the Great Game are the Russians, who sneak around fomenting anti-British revolts. Kim and his buddy, Errol Flynn, manage to rack up quite a few points for our side; Kim by spying and carrying messages, and Flynn by knifing, shooting, and rolling rocks down...