Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mess of his food supply, as he can of anything else. He does not have to, however. The land is there, the hands to work it are there, the brains are there. If he uses his head he can eat hearty-indefinitely. He might even produce enough to help out Dr. Vogt's friends, the woodland caribou, the Florida manatee, the wolverine and the bighorn sheep. Unfortunately nothing can be done for the extinct Eskimo curlew...
...Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action committees, the S.E.D. [meaning the German Communist Party] can take power...
...government was ready to talk. Defense Minister Brooke Claxton led off in a coast-to-coast broadcast. Said he: "We are working out with other free nations plans for joint defense based on self-help and mutual aid." Three days later, External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson had his piece ready...
Lionel Barrymore, 70, who has been trouping from a wheel chair since he broke his hip in a 1936 studio fall, might soon be back on his feet. He walked with the help of a handrail in his latest picture, now hobbles around the studio on crutches. After he sheds 20 pounds and gets fitted with a leather corset contraption, he will try walking without the crutches...
Next day the co-editors got an irate letter from the help. Sixty-seven staffers (including the executive, managing, and city editors) wanted it known that they emphatically disagreed with both the Thackreys: with Ted chiefly for indorsing Wallace, Communist Gerson and eight candidates of the Commy-controlled American Labor Party, and with Dolly for indorsing one of the A.L.P. men. The staffers wrote: "The impression must prevail, among this newspaper's readers, that those who write for it and produce it daily are, like one of you, for the triumph of Henry Wallace, of many Communist Party members...