Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare Grecian urns. Ihenacho, at 25 the youngest brigade commander in the Biafran army, supervised the process, his hands on the grip of a captured submachine gun. Then Ihenacho led the way up the trail leading to the village. The path was lined with civilians, young and old. "They help carry out the wounded," the colonel explained as he politely murmured greetings. "They are all volunteers...
...cutting off the arms supply, Gowon can easily cover any cutback in British shipments with increased deliveries from Russia. Moreover, Britain might lose investments in Nigerian oilfields that now amount to $720 million. To avoid those unpleasant possibilities, Wilson lamely explained last week that he had come "to help mitigate the suffering of your country, of its people and, not least, of its children...
...heart is less sensitive, it is able to keep the recipient alive and is responsive enough to permit him a reasonable degree of activity. An artificial heart, Cooley suggested, need do no more. Artificial heart research, which will surely benefit from the knowledge gained by transplants, may in turn help to explain why the natural heart, with no connection to the brain, can begin pumping as soon as it is attached to the recipient's major blood vessels...
...answer the question, as they frequently are, psychological experts will often fall back on the premise of their training. Wisconsin's Halleck notes that the average psychiatrist is slightly biased toward blame because in day-to-day practice he has found that "if he is ever going to help people overcome their difficulties, he must constantly implore them to assume responsibility for their actions." Nonetheless, psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists, who tend to believe that unconscious forces determine a man's deeds, are more likely to find an offender nonresponsible; those who deal primarily with graphs showing abnormal brain activity...
...hides." That seemed reasonable enough, but Mabley ignored the possibility that the officers might be guilty and portrayed them as martyrs. "They are under a cloud of suspicion that will dog their entire police careers, even if they are vindicated," he complained. He pleaded with his readers to help find jobs for the suspended...