Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not enjoy the prospect. "I abhor giving speeches, I detest shaking hands, I detest in the most abominable manner signing autographs." And those babies, those terrible, drooling babies. But Vaughn wants to help, and he knows that his face and name may lend respectability to an anti-war movement which needs it. The effectiveness of the April 12 March in New York, in Vaughn's view, was riddled by tactical errors--a slate of controversial speakers, the wild forays of urban guerrillas and a contingent of exhibitionist hippies Being...
...then it was too late. The police had closed the Mass Ave gate nearest the Cliffe and with the help of freshman proctors succeeded in dispersing the crowd...
...effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight had been publicized as a treatment for tuberculosis. It does indeed increase body production of Vitamin D, which helps control TB, but it has no other beneficial effects except occasional help for a case of acne or psoriasis...
...follows the unusual practice of inviting all defendants and their families to discuss presentencing reports in the privacy of his chambers. His compassion is evident in even the most minor cases-many of which inevitably involve race. In one, a white man had allegedly hired four Negroes to help him steal peanuts from a federal warehouse. The jury acquitted the white man, convicted the Negroes. Poker-faced, Johnson dropped a balancing thumb onto the scales of Alabama justice as he handed down the Negroes' sentence: 30 minutes in the custody of the U.S. marshal...
Supernatural Fables. Two Tales is the one book among the three translations that should prompt U.S. readers to endorse the Nobel committee's judgment. Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka. In Betrothed, the heroine Susan suddenly appears before the hero, a young scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth...