Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Japanese saw darker reasons for the U.S. action. Last week Tokyo was rife with baseless rumors that the war criminals were being saved because the U.S. wanted their help in fighting Russia. Some even spread the fantastic tale that General Yamashita, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was turned down in 1946, had not been hanged at all and was now in the U.S. as a top military adviser. Most Japanese were simply bewildered by the legal mumbo jumbo of the inscrutable Occidentals. Many an American felt the same...
...Spain scratched the dry soil last week with ancient tools. The drought was one of the worst in modern times. In Barcelona, the shortage of hydroelectric power kept the textile plants shut down for six days out of seven. The people, inured to poverty for centuries, looked for help from two sources: from God, in the form of rain, and from the U.S., in the form of money, machines, supplies. They were almost wholly unaware of the controversy that raged in the free world over whether Franco's Spain should be helped...
...middle aisle, sat quietly on seats marked with their names in big letters. As the seconds checked their watches, Father Lombardi murmured to Spano: "When Communism falls-as I'm sure it will-call upon me at any time. I will do all I can to help you." Retorted Spano: "I won't need...
...this domestic upheaval, Mrs. de Havilland-Fontaine had a date with her bridge club. The ladies were so moved by the story of young Olivia's plight that they raised $200 to help her out. Olivia boarded with a respectable lady and went on triumphantly as Violet. Ever since, except for a brief spell of discouragement when she thought of becoming a speech teacher, Olivia has pursued her profession with the same energy and bounce that led her high-school class to predict that she would become a "circus queen...
Under the old system, airliners are led from airport to airport by radio ranges which sound an on-course signal in the pilot's ears only when the plane is in one of four narrow beams. Planes outside the beams get little help from the radio. Even when they stay on the beam, they have no way of telling how far they are from the station...