Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being decimated by the Viet Minh. The Communists, entrenched in the surrounding hills, kept up such a deadly hail of flak that resupply flights to the defenders were down to a dribble. In those bleak days of April 1954, only one thing could have saved the besieged garrison: American help. That help was denied-and, according to French-born Historian Bernard B. Fall, it was largely because of objections by then Senate Minority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Had the decision gone the other way, Fall argues in a new book on Dienbienphu, Hell in a Very Small Place, the battle...
...mayor wants federal help in building a town sewage-treatment plant, West Virginia's Governor Hulett Smith pointed out, he may pick from five federal agencies and from five different sets of standards. If he addresses his letter to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, he gets only 30% of the cost of the project. But if he mails it to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he may hit something akin to the jackpot-a full...
...idea has been adopted by Edward M. Kovachi Jr. '68, as a plank in his campaign for Leverett House Committee chairman. Kovachi said last night, and Hoffman agreed, that it would be quite feasible for the House Committee to direct the guide's compilation with help from other House members. "I know many people in the House who are really gung-ho for this idea," Kovachi added...
Money raised by the Fund through annual gifts from classes as far back as that of 1891 is used to help the College meet current expenses and to provide a reservoir of unrestricted money for College projects such as the Freshman Seminar program, financial aid to undergraduates and Intramural sports...
Moynihan is guality to a large extent, of exactly that shortcoming for which he criticizes liberals: the desire to control those whom one seeks to help. The results of this very human failing are many: romantic identification with the oppressed; the desire to preserve the romance by controlling the oppressed and their thoughts and actions; the use of this romantic notion to overcome doubts about the morality of what one is in fact doing...