Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confetti he had scooped up after the wedding, and a bunch of white heather that had been given him and the other guests at the wedding breakfast. Said the London News Chronicle as Godspeed: ". . . In a world starved of American currency . . . there is little we can do to help Canada at the moment. But at least we can take the occasion of Mr. Mackenzie King's presence in London to acknowledge our great debt, and to reaffirm that nothing shall be left undone which might enable us to assist wherever and whenever...
...desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help them...
...just had a crash. For airlines and pilots, that conclusion poses a dilemma. How can the pilot get back his confidence unless he flies? Horn suggests that a crashed pilot should go through a comeback course of supervised flying with a copilot. If his jitters are severe, it may help to talk out his trouble under a "hypnotic" drug...
...papers got some help from commercial print shops, where I.T.U. members - fearing to violate the Taft-Hartley Act by a secondary boycott - set ads for the newspapers. Other unions avoided sympathy moves that might violate the law. By week's end, the dailies were printing newspapers of about their usual size; the Tribune ran 116 pages Sunday, the Sun a 152-page tabloid with 96 pages of news...
...Times, operating 24 hours a day, hired the biggest crew with such lures as free turkey dinners on Thanksgiving Day to keep them punching. Copyreaders briefed the girls on the mysteries of their symbols, which the typists found not very mysterious. Executives' secretaries pitched in to help type the news; the executives answered the mail themselves...