Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notable for its failure to mention any rewards for Americans. Will this peace between Israel and Egypt better our relations with the U.S.S.R. or decelerate Moscow's growing influence over its neighbors, increase our access to energy sources, reduce our rate of inflation, improve our balance of payments, help balance our budget or increase our national security...
...stopped at 6:15 p.m. sharp. "I leaned my back against the door and listened to the building tearing apart," said Martinez. "I thought that I was going to die. Things started flying, mud and water started coming under the bathroom door, and I could hear people screaming for help." Although Sun Valley was almost completely destroyed, she and Chastity Dawn escaped unscathed. Just a few hundred yards away, however, several people dining at two restaurants were killed...
...classic Reign of Terror, of course, occurred during the French Revolution, when hasty trials and execution by the guillotine were used as instruments of policy to help combat conspiracies from both within and without the country. Although tens of thousands died over a decade of turmoil and civil war, the actual Terror, as the historians have come to call it, lasted only from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The terrible year in which the revolution devoured its own leaders as well as its enemies began with the execution of King Louis XVI on a cold, misty morning in January...
City Councilor Saundra Graham told the rally that Cambridge's housing situation is just as bad as it was in 1969 when striking students called on Harvard to help the city...
...whales are on a nation-wide tour to help promote a ten-year moratorium on whale killing at the next International Whaling Commission meeting," Deirdre Devine, a spokesman for Greenpeace, a Boston-based seal and whale conservation group, said yesterday...