Word: succor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first sickening blows of horror brought by the news of the German concentration camps came the question: how succor the human remnants left alive? From Buchenwald last week TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth reported how U.S. Army doctors have tackled...
...impressive titles and alphabetical nicknames, sprang up, and more were to come : PWA, NRA, HOLC, SEC. CCC meant unemployed boys from grey Brooklyn streets in the green Pacific Northwest woods; PWA meant big concrete dams rising on the Tennessee and the Columbia. WPA meant leaf-raking and boondoggling - and succor for the hungry. A big song hit of 1932 was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? In 1933, people whistled Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? "Kerensky...
Anticlimax. The rest of Belle's life was anticlimax. Arrested, she fell in love with the Yankee ensign assigned to guard her. He became the first of her three husbands. In England she was a social success for a time, fell into poverty, had to succor herself by writing her guarded memoirs...
...House of Commons, members fidgeted. They sat late, for they were going home for Christmas and they wanted to be off. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wound up his speech: "No succor could come to the enemy equal to that he will receive from anything that goes to show that a Parliament in ... the British Commonwealth ... is not united in support of its fighting men. . . ." Then (1:20 a.m.) the black-robed clerk finally rose, polled the members, bowed to the Speaker's chair and announced: "Ayes 143, Nays...
...begin your cruise here aboard the Harvard. If, in any way, we can give you advice or help you with your work, or even take your girl out when you are restricted for failing to bow every time you meet a Junior Officer, please feel free to supplicate our succor...