Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What would France do about it? She would help the Canadians "to achieve the liberationist aims that they have set for themselves." She would "organize and extend more and more her ties with the French people of Canada." De Gaulle stopped just short of announcing the annexation of Quebec-for the present, anyway. He grandly proclaimed that France has no pretensions to sovereignty "over all or part of the Canada of today...
When they are not drinking bitters at the Zambesi Club bar in London, the hearty-mannered young men in open-necked sports shirts spend most of their time carefully scanning the help-wanted ads. Right now there are few openings for their specialized skills. But they are sure that somewhere soon, most likely in Africa or the Middle East, they will find a fight that they will be paid to join. They are mercenary soldiers, members of a dwindling fraternity of adventurers who lay their lives on the line for money...
Chapter II. So it came to pass that the damsel with the violin was engaged by the lord to help manage his affairs. As a reward, he often took "Bambi," as he fondly called her, to concerts, sitting with her in the stalls while Marion pined in the box. In private, the lord's nights with Bambi grew bolder, and the day eventually came when she told him that she was bearing his child...
While the compulsion is an obvious help, no one, of course, is compelled to attend Beloit. This is no problem, for there are volunteers aplenty, thanks to an imaginative curricular package designed by Beloit President Miller Upton to make summer attendance actually attractive for at least a third of the school's 1,100 students each year...
...them new visual perspectives-all aimed at making them more aware of an urban environment. "If you don't get imagination as a child, you probably never will," he argues, "because it gets knocked out of you by the time you grow up." The workshop also aims to help teachers discover how children can work together creatively. Adults, claims Geisel, are really "children who have become obsolete," thus need such help in understanding kids...