Word: succor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antimacassar and curdle his comfortable blood with fiction about fiends in human form. So Victorian Novelist Wilkie Collins, who dispensed such fiction, was not displeased, one moonlit night in the 1850s, when a beautiful lady, robed all in white, ran up to him on a lonely road, screaming for succor. She had escaped, explained the white lady, from a fiend who had held her in durance with the help of hypnotic powers and a kitchen poker...
Americans most rapidly, it is generosity followed by lingering doubts that the good works are being mocked by a cynical recipient. In the minds of many Americans the poverty of Europe and the self-sufficiency of this country in 1947 do not create a situation where the act of succor would be an unqualified good. On the contrary, the simple act of feeding starving neighbors, a Golden Rule between individuals, becomes a delicate balance of gains and losses when nations go to work. And since American thought and action and even food contributions constitute an unofficial but effective extension...
...were suddenly asked to pay a $5 initiation fee or get no goods. Gradually the whole herd became restive. Hoffa outlined his strategy candidly. If merchants and their employes did not join the union within 30 days, they would be cut off from their supplies. If wholesalers attempted to succor them, they too would...
Herbert Hoover trudged wearily through Warsaw's ruins, soup kitchens, orphans' homes. In Hoover Square, Poland's grateful tribute to him after World War I, he saw how his statue had been destroyed by German grenades. But the heavy-jowled old man, who had brought succor to Europe a quarter-century ago, was still building something more substantial than a marble monument. Restlessly, unsparing of his age, he scourged the world's conscience...
Many a wanderer was beyond appeal or succor. Typical was a scene in Berlin's once fashionable Dahlem, now part of the U.S. zone. A grey old man stood on a curb. Beside him a tattered cadaverous woman leaned apathetically against a shell-scarred tree. On the pavement before them lay a long bundle wrapped in a frayed black dress and held together by a string drawn around the ankles and neck of the corpse inside. The three were refugees from the East. They were thumbing a ride out of town to a spot where the dead could...