Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief administrator. Two months later, armed Anguillans ousted the 15-man police force and rolled out oil drums on the little Anguilla airstrip to make sure that they did not return. As occasional shooting continued to flare up in the torpid Caribbean nights, Bradshaw appealed to Britain to help quell the insurrection, but the foreign office said it was an internal matter. Last week the Anguillans tried a new tack: they declared their independence of Britain and asked to be put under U.S. rule. Hardly eager to field that small but hot potato, a State Department officer said that...
...mugger lashed out at her head with a blunt weapon and snatched her purse. When Dr. Marshall died of her injuries, the Indianapolis News was deluged with letters from infuriated women. Assistant Publisher Eugene S. Pulliam asked one of the paper's staffers, Margaret Moore, 56, to help 30 prominent civic-minded women to decide on a course of action...
...police did not take kindly to the prospect of having a bunch of women tell them how to run their business. Crusade Coordinator Moore and a co-worker camped at police headquarters for 48 hours, explaining in plain language at every roll call that they were there to help, not hinder. They proved their point by using the News to lobby for -and help get-raises for patrolmen. As the women rode along in squad cars for full eight-hour shifts, their determination helped win over the cops...
Voiceprints have also received implicit recognition by the State Department, which sent a Middle East expert to help Kersta examine the Israeli tape. But Washington had good reason to believe that the tape was authentic even before Kersta's analysis: neither Nasser nor Hussein ever denied that the recorded voices were theirs...
...Government now spends $4 billion a year on college campuses - half of it in support of Government-desired research, about $750 million in construction of facilities, the rest in loans, scholarships and jobs that help more than a million students to stay in school. But officials of such schools as M.I.T. and Caltech-which get about half their operating budgets from federal funds-argue that the research is only a service to Government, and that the grants do not pay the full costs of maintaining the added facilities. The American Council on Education's John F. Morse contends that...