Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends' doors have been shut to us and opened to Ojukwu, even though we offer to pay cash for help, and he doesn't have an economy. Where is the morality of this world? We remove the word hate. We remove the word victory. We remove the word enemy. What we get back is poison...
...from the Soviets Going to the Soviet Union, I assure you, was just a way of dealing with Ojukwu's threat. After all, Ojukwu started the air war. Even Abraham Lincoln went to Russia for help to win his own Civil...
...psychotherapy-as well as strict enforcement by the highway patrol-may be the answer for the sociopathic driver, whose chief problem is immoderate behavior behind the wheel rather than at the bar. For alcoholics, Borkenstein cautiously proposes suspending their driving privileges until, through medical and psychiatric help, they have their problem under control. Alcoholism is hard to define and detect, and to penalize a man for such a vaguely defined condition is not consistent with the American concept of civil liberty. As a result, Borkenstein advises against suspending licenses except in cases of frequent alcohol-related violations...
...year was 1922. Dada was dead, Surrealism not yet born. Max Ernst, a fledgling artist who had figured prominently in the former movement and would soon help formulate the latter, was in his native Cologne, yearning for the radical friends that he knew were spawning the most adventuresome ideas of the day in postwar Paris. For Germans in those days, French visas were almost impossible to obtain. Finally, one August night, Ernst slipped across the border. Later he turned up at the Paris apartment of two friends, the poet Paul Eluard and his wife Gala...
...change. At 21 she was visiting a psychiatrist regularly and living on pills: pills to put her to sleep, pills to wake her up, pills to help keep her weight down. Eleven years, two husbands, and 20 movies (including the Andy Hardy series with Mickey Rooney, Meet Me in St. Louis and Easter Parade) after making Oz, she had established herself as the best of a bevy of girlish filmland warblers that included Gloria Jean, Deanna Durbin and Jane Powell. But she could no longer handle the pressure of stardom. She began showing up for work late or sick, then...