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Word: helpful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them they pulled out their canisters of Mace and started spraying the people in the front. No warning. The front line turned and fled. The guardsmen kept coming. I lunged for Sarah, and we linked elbows and began to move back. She fell and I reached down to help her, as a New Hampshire state trooper, aiming at where her head had been, caught me straight in the face with Mace. Again I stumbled frantically forward, trying to get away from the clubs and the cops. The same medic found me and pulled me into the woods. As he rinsed...

Author: By Jennifer L. Marrs, | Title: Direct Action: A First Attempt | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...think the people who were there last night were serious about wanting to help," Green said. "Unfortunately the average Harvard student is not familiar with the atmosphere of race relations in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BSA Raises Over $300 To Help Paralyzed Boy | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...program of theater and seminar is the first event of this year sponsored by "Side by Side" council for the performing arts. The one-year-old organization brings top level performers to Harvard and offers casting help in professional films, Danielle Alexandra '79-4, president of "Side by Side," said Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leonard Nimoy Speaks With Students About His Boston Production 'Vincent' | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

Obviously the TV presence detracted nothing from the performance. It may even have helped it. Performers agree that it generates what Levine calls "a constructive nervousness," forcing them to concentrate harder. Milnes estimates that in a televised performance "the metabolism goes up 10% to 15%. You can't help thinking you're on Candid Camera. " Sometimes it can be a little too candid. Last week, before Cruz-Romo's big arias, viewers could clearly see her rolling her tongue to gather saliva in her mouth ("My God," she said later, "I didn't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met, the Moor and the Eye | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse a gathering explosion at home. The May 4 killing of four students at Kent State University by rifle fire from Ohio National Guardsmen proved to be a match thrown into a powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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