Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy in Viet Nam renewed their attacks, but with a special sting to their words. Illinois Republican Charles Percy accused the President of having allowed U.S. soldiers to fight the war "while the South Vietnamese hold our coats" and declared that "a new face-any new face-can help bring about honorable negotiations" more easily than can Johnson. Noting with pleasure that...
...evening he played host to a dozen Democratic Senators, ten of whom face re-election next year. Among them were some of his harshest opponents on the war, but Johnson was eminently conciliatory, assuring them that he bore no grudges and wanted to do all he could to help them win reelection...
President McKinley had no manpower problems for his war in 1898; volunteers flocked to the colors by the thousands. Wealthy contributers gave yachts, and financed whole regiments to help relieve the beleaguered Cuban revolutionaries after decades of Spanish oppression. No matter that the President, all but one of his Cabinet, and much of the business community opposed a fight with Spain. Wild enthusiasm for war had been whipped up by the "yellow" journalism of the day, particularly by Pulitzer's New York World and Hearst's New York Journal. Letters calling for war came in from every part...
...stripling of 30 (compared with 40 at the New York City Ballet). Many of the cheers this season, in fact, went to a pair of wet-behind-the-ears gambolers, elfin Robert Blankshine, 18, and athletic Luis Fuente, 21. The company's cheekiness and dramatic flair help strengthen the cause of American ballet by leaps and bounds...
With Fletcher's Help. The series of curious incidents eventually convinced Pike, who was at Cambridge University on a sabbatical leave from his California diocese, that James Jr. was trying to contact him from beyond the grave. Last week Pike revealed that he had communicated with his son no fewer than six times since then with the help of assorted sympathetic mediums. The most recent-and most dramatic-encounter took place last month in Toronto, where Pike participated in a televised séance with the Rev. Arthur A. Ford of Philadelphia, a Disciples of Christ minister...