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Word: helpin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would assume that Dukakis will choose Goreor Glenn," said Trumbull Professor of AmericanHistory Donald H. Fleming. "Dukakis needs Southernand he needs Midwestern votes. Gore would speak tothe Southern problem, and to the defense andforeign policy questions, while Glenn would helpin the Midwest...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Profs Reach No Consensus Over Potential V.P. Nominees | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...school- taught folks been talkin' about that story since Mark Twain made it up, about me and Jim floatin' on our raft down that monstrous big river, and Jim escapin' from slavery and me hiding him out. They say I did a big heroic thing in helpin' Jim get free, but that weren't it. Truth is, Jim helped me git free, 'cause if he hadn't made me realize that it was better to do something wrong that felt right, no matter how many educated people said it was wrong, like helpin' a runaway slave, then I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huck and Miss Liberty | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...relied on benefits that are harder and harder to keep: "Maybe Social Security thinks I've lived too long." He goes on: "It's funny. When I see the Vietnamese who came over here, I just wonder how they start so fast. Get businesses and stuff. Somebody helpin' 'em. But the ones that fought for they country, been livin' here all along, we get treated like dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beleaguered Patriotism and Pride | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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