Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard-bitten General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had taken the witness stand before the tense audience in the House Armed Services Committee room. Infantryman Bradley began to read his statement, which he had handwritten without help from public-relations experts, in his quarters at Fort Myer...
...plenty from a land of want, spoke quietly and simply of his people's past sufferings and of their present needs. But sometimes his words suggested that he did not want to be tainted by the riches and the power he saw about him-even though they might help India along her difficult road. Said he: "It is just like the man who possesses many valuables . . . being constantly afraid of losing or somebody stealing them . . . Possibly he might be a more comfortable man if he didn't have them ... In the terms that the world measures the nations...
...days. He said it was 90% slums. He said pregnant women worked on paving jobs in the streets while army officers walked around. Caviar, he said, cost twice as much in Moscow as it did in Indianapolis. Ed even took in a ballet. He couldn't help laughing, he said, when he looked down from a box on Ambassador Kirk, who couldn't sit in a box because of the five Russians who were always trailing him. "He had to sit in the orchestra," said Ed, "because there were too many of them...
...think you can perform any finer service than to help maintain the Christian doctrine that the relationship of husband and wife is a permanent one, not to be lightly broken because of difficulties or quarrels...
...appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...