Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fireman. In Waco, Tex., when three women tried to help him fight a fire in his room, 74-year-old Bachelor Tug J. Boleman decided to let the building burn up, later explained: "Women make me nervous...
...more than they blamed themselves. Said Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.: "No satisfactory method at present exists to resolve the differences between the armed services and to produce an intelligent and integrated plan . . . The Secretary of Defense, although an extremely competent official, is so lacking in professional help that he cannot possibly resolve the differences. What happens? The controversy is passed on to Congress and we here are thus required to resolve a technical dispute between professionals. It is utterly preposterous and would be comical if the consequences were not so dangerous." There was a move on foot...
...Mexicans and those of many another racial group in the U.S., they had lived their lives behind opaque, flint-hard walls of prejudice. But they could not bear the idea of going back to the noisome streets they had left behind. They went to their minister and asked for help...
Palestine's Arabs had little time to think about a new government. One Arab leader estimated that 200,000 of his countrymen had already fled the country. To save themselves from complete defeat, Arabs looked for help across the Jordan to King Abdullah...
...help unlard the A.P.'s avoirduprose, Gould hired Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch (TIME, Feb. 16). There are signs also that the A.P. is getting over the timidity that makes it (for fear of offending one of its 3,900 members) almost objectionably objective. "We have a duty," said Gould's log, "to give the reader some idea of how near the truth a broadcast or communique may be . . ." And the A.P. is encouraging its own Managing Editors Association to find fault. Many an M.E. thinks the world's best news service could still be considerably improved...