Word: succor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precisely this policy that demonstrated to the world, In terms of high drama, the U.S.'s traditional adherence to the principles of law and justice. U.S. policy on Hungary was criticized as too little and too late (see FOREIGN NEWS), but nevertheless the U.S. was offering the Hungarians succor and refuge while the U.S.S.R. offered bloodshed and deportation to the steppes...
...Chicago in 1952 assumed 100,000 casualties, 20,000 dead), but have counted on their own medical facilities. In the Beaumont test, the presumption was that a refinery blast had caused 250 casualties* and knocked out local medical aid. It was up to Houston, 90 miles away, to give succor...
...steam to drive them. But the price of industrial precocity, in an age that was unprepared for it, was paid by the people of Lancashire. In Lancashire's "dark, satanic mills" children labored twelve hours a day, women grew old at 30. Religion was their chief succor. The Methodist revival burned bright in the Lancashire mill towns, and its influence provided Britain's Labor Party, one of whose strongholds is South Lancashire, with a strain of Biblical humanism that tempers the doctrinaire Socialism of its Marxist intellectuals. South Lancashire today sends more than 50 M.P.s to Parliament...
...huge circles like the covered wagons of American pioneers. Over their wagons flew tattered Rajput sun flags (symbolizing the god Rama) and banners reading, "Hail Emperor Nehru." Few of the tribesmen had ever heard of Prime Minister Nehru, but they knew that a great badshah (ruler) had offered to succor them at Chitor, a place they had always avoided in their wanderings...
...fashioned wing collars and pince-nez and who like another well-known Prime Minister, has a fondness for strong brandy and premier-sized cigars. Last week Yoshida was in the U.S. on a twofold mission: 1) to pay a formal goodwill call, and 2) to find some economic succor for his hungry homeland. The protocol tour was a resounding success, but the fund-raising expedition turned out to be a disappointment for the little visitor...