Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...king, two for a queen, one for a jack. Entranced by the point count's simplicity, Goren devoted numberless hours to expanding the idea into a general bidding method. "It took me about 15 years," he says, "and I had some very expert help." Most valuable helper: Toronto Insurance Executive William M. Anderson, a bridge buff and mathematician...
...Johns Hopkins Universities-he has also served five Presidents of the U.S.: as Agriculture Department careerman under Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, as wartime troubleshooter for F.D.R., as labor-dispute fact finder and Government reorganizer for Harry Truman, and as Ike's most trusted, trustworthy helper...
What about Chiwaro, the African helper whose find led to the discovery of the emerald treasure? He has not been forgotten. The millionaire prospectors have promised him a lifetime pension of $420 a year...
Thus it is clear, summed up Green, leaning on the comments of a handy Philadelphia psychiatrist, that "gratitude for past help" leads both to "hostility toward the helper, because it arouses a sense of dependency on the helper which is resented," and also to a "desire to reciprocate." At week's end. Congressman Green still had hopes of forcing Old Friend Murphy off the case. If he succeeded, there would be one other problem : What if the next judge...
...pack of notebooks that Elisabeth had hidden under attic eaves (Nietzsche had a habit of drafting letters to friends in his notebooks before sending them). The only copies extant of Nietzsche letters saying, "You are the only person I trust absolutely," and "You are such a good friend and helper," were in Elisabeth's own hand; on these she had written that the originals were "later lost" or "burned by our dear mother." In all, Schlechta traced about 30 forged letters...