Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like old home week. The patrol leader was a former Ohio college student. He gave us some warm milk sweetened with sugar and sent us on to Figueres' headquarters. There I met a Louisiana State University graduate who was Figueres' best machine-gunner and, so help me, the red-bearded Puerto Limon garrison commander was a classmate of mine at the University of California. (All three, of course, were Costa Ricans.) California '42 and I celebrated with fresh coconut juice, remarking that you certainly meet the most unexpected people in insurrections." James A. Linen
...corrected. "It is necessary to expose the illusion that the abolition of monopoly rule . . . will usher in a system of 'progressive capitalism' " (a pet idea of Henry Wallace's). But that was minor. "The central immediate task of the Communists," the resolution declared, "is to help the people's coalition to realize its immediate tasks...
Ruefully, Editor Shipler announced that he would settle for a special citation to the new State of Israel-whose U.N. delegate warily declined. Cracked Manhattan's Daily News: "Better late than never, of course. But we can't help wondering . . . Don't any of Mr. Marshall's advisers read the papers...
...night he was sent to investigate a call for help in a bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear...
Ernie Bevin exploded. He said in effect that he was sick & tired of U.S. pressure; Britain was treaty-bound to help Arab states, and good relations with the Moslem Middle East were as vital for U.S. security as they were for Britain's. But when Bevin calmed down he sent new instructions to Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan at Lake Success: London would stop arms shipments to Arab states, provided the Security Council called for a general arms embargo which would prevent other nations, as well, from shipping arms and men to Palestine. The British also called...