Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Couldn't Help It" Manchester focuses microscopically on the thoughts and actions of the occupants of the presidential limousine. A fragment of Kennedy's shattered skull "rises over the President's falling shoulders and seems to hang there and then drift toward the rear, and Jackie springs up on her stained knees . . . and sprawls on the sloping back of the car, defeated." John Connally, suddenly covered with blood, thought instantly of riding as a boy in the family Model T after helping butcher cattle, then realizing that he himself was hit, "fills his lungs and screams...
...prayer." Later, in the corridor, Secret Service Chauffeur Bill Greer came up to her and sobbed, "Oh Mrs. Kennedy, oh my God, oh my God, I didn't mean to do it, I didn't hear, I should have swerved the car, I couldn't help it." Then he embraced her and wept on her shoulder...
...geographical concept." Ulbricht even changed the name of East Germany's Secretariat for All-German Affairs to the Secretariat of West German Affairs, to show that the two Germanys no longer have anything in common. All of this, he said in his New Year's message, "should help overcome any remaining illusions about reunification. The task is to make clear that socialism and capitalism can never unite...
...roam. Back in Bangkok, a Portuguese Jesuit brother with a reputation for clairvoyance picked out a likely spot on a map, and the commander of U.S. Army Support in Thailand, Brigadier General Edwin F. Black, flew off to Malaysia with it in the distant hope the it might help. Even a local witch doctor tried, and failed, to divine Thompson's whereabouts...
...Cornwall, where 100 miles of beaches were polluted, almost everyone volunteered to help. Hundreds of men, women and children turned up with buckets and watering cans, formed human chains to rush the detergent from trucks into the water. At St. Ives, the town's entire 27-boat fishing fleet patrolled offshore areas with detergent. At least 15,000 sea birds were killed by the oil, and Britons rallied to save thousands more by cleaning their feathers with absorbent compounds...