Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece, the Communists, with military help from their Slav comrades across the borders, were winning. No matter how much purely economic aid the U.S. put in, the Reds could probably overrun Greece whenever they decided to try hard...
...priest's answer varies. For those who "are strong in the faith," he has a smile and words of encouragement. "We shall win the elections with God's help-it's Christ against Mammon." But encountering one whose faith he judges to be wavering, Don Francesco, with a flick of a powerful wrist, lowers the umbrella on the miscreant's head. "You didn't come to the theater last night, Nicola," he says, or "Agata, your girl hasn't learned her lines...
...small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false teeth...
Planes on the Line. Chinese hoped that other U.S. help, recently announced in Washington, would also have a bite to it. They wondered. As a partial answer to critics, Washington had just revealed a top-secret agreement, signed in 1945, under which the Chinese had been promised 1,071 transport and military planes. Most of these planes had already been delivered. But a quarter of them had arrived in no condition to fly. Another third had become useless for lack of parts for repairs. In August 1946, the whole delivery program had been suspended for ten months when...
Possibly. But chiefly to help him think about and care about his world. People living today in the U.S. and other parts of the free world are engaged in a great historical experiment; they are faced with the challenge of establishing and extending the first democratic civilization. For them, news has a meaning that it did not have for plain people in the days of Pericles or Pitt. The decisions of the 20th Century rest with the people. To act, they have to know and to care...