Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male [TIME, Jan. 5]. What about sexual behavior in the human female? If man had a little understanding of their behavior it would help...
...Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole in town...
...International Children's Emergency Fund was doing what it could to help Pessel herself, but there were millions like her for whom it could do nothing. Broadcast through many of the world's radio stations, a recorded wail from little Pessel's scarred lungs was sounding last week, an anguished plea for help to these others...
Last week, King George's Swan Keeper Fred Turk, with four assistants, dutifully and warily rounded up six squawking swans from the Thames at Cookham, packed them off in pairs to hiss and sputter on the odoriferous Tigris at Bagdad. The London News Chronicle muttered sarcastically: "Might help, though...
...Specialists. The six were off, a fortnight ago, to a new life in a land even more forbidding than their own. They were to help South Africa set up permanent weather observation stations on Prince Edward and Marion Islands, volcanic juts on the Antarctic fringe of the Indian Ocean, 1,200 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope and even more desolate than Tristan. Civilization had found a job for which Tristanites were peculiarly fitted; they would show South African Navymen how to stay alive on barren land in the long, bone-chilling, mid-ocean winter...