Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictatorial tenden cies? Perhaps; but De Gaulle understands the danger of dictatorship well. He has said: "What is dictatorship? Doubtless its first steps may seem attractive. Amid the enthusiasm of some and the resignation of others, amid the rigor of the order which it imposes and with the help of spectacular staging and one-way propaganda, dictatorship can at first assume a dynamic aspect which contrasts agreeably with the anarchy which preceded it. But it is the fate of dictatorship to exaggerate. . . . The nation becomes a machine which the master progressively and frantically accelerates. ... In the end the spring breaks...
...February 1917, the Russian people, without any help from Lenin, made a revolution that overthrew the Czar, freed political prisoners, speech and press, and organized the first and last free election in Russia's history. The Russians knew what they wanted, but Lenin knew better. A Lenin dictum was: "The people themselves do not know what is good or bad for them...
...Where Is It?" Many Greeks, ready to fight, wonder why they do not get the U.S. help they have been promised. I visited a village in Thrace where, the night before, guerrillas had carried out a raid, burning four houses and abducting three men and a woman, plus a good part of the village's winter food supply. There I was asked: "Where is this American aid? We heard a lot about it for months but we haven't seen any of it yet. The Communists always told us it wouldn't come. We didn...
During these last days the moment came that he had always hoped for. The result was one of the best known hymns in the English language: Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens: Lord, with me abide! When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with...
...watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...