Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come down from the Ministry of Finance. Our Buenos Aires Correspondent (at that time, William Johnson) talked to the Subsecretariat of Information and Press, which denied all responsibility for the ban or even knowing about it. Johnson then saw James Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, who promised to help, and Diego Luis Molinari, president of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who got him an appointment with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. The Foreign Minister agreed that "some solution on a legal basis was desirable," and agreed to talk to the President...
...little after Christmas when the doctor first told me. Kenny and Denny were only four months old then. The doctor said he didn't want to be cruel, but he didn't know whether an operation would help ... I went home . . . As I sat in the nursery holding my two babies and crying, the only thing I could think of was that I had to tell 'Brown,' my husband. He came running into the house whistling and shouting, 'Where are my two babies?' He always says something like that...
...understand people who take the view that everything is lost when something like this touches their lives. I can't help feeling sorry for them . . . We have felt all along that our babies will see some day. Even if they don't, we plan to give them as normal a life as possible...
...mechanical crib called "Night Nurse" was demonstrated in Manhattan by Dr. Sydney Norton Baruch, consulting engineer for the Air Force. Designed to help busy mothers, the motorized creche also will croon lullabies from a recording of the kind mother sings...
Small as they may be, dinghies require a crew, not so much to help the skipper handle the boat but to keep the tiny catboat from tipping over in rough weather. Mike Post and John Gardiner have steady jobs as crews for Putnam and Scullay...