Word: succor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeding of freshmen, you're assured more attention here. Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, brings a gung-ho enthusiasm to his job that excites and pleases many students--usually those who are as enthusiastic as he is--but sometimes turns off students with real problems who find no succor in his blandishments...
...lack of resistance to the Soviet Union--and of course we all condemned the show trials of the Helsinki monitoring group. But blandly cheering on courageous dissidents like Ginzburg and Scharansky as they take part in some goodies vs. baddies soap opera is an insult. We can only effectively succor the cause of human rights in Eastern Europe by understanding in detail the local conditions which may (or may not) give dissident groups their opportunity...
...concentration camp. Pasternak bravely directed that the royalties for his translations of Shakespeare's tragedies be spent to help prisoners in the Gulag. When prison regulations eased after Stalin's death, a flood of letters arrived from strangers in the camps, thanking him for the succor of his poetry. Ivinskaya has provided what might be his epitaph, in the first lines of a Pasternak poem that remains unpublished in Russia...
...survival more than the quintupling of oil prices. Pan Am's fuel bill last year soared by $194 million and was the prime factor behind its $81.8 million deficit, the alltime highest for a U.S. airline. There is a certain irony, therefore, in the fact that desperately needed succor will come from a major instigator of high oil prices. Last week the White House endorsed a deal by which the government of Iran will prop up Pan Am with some $300 million...
...stands fragrantly like a bride at the altar, awaiting the embrace of fresh butter and an osculation of jam. It is a loaf of bread. Not the cellophaned Kleenex sold at the supermarket but a homemade loaf, crusty, crumbly and a succor for the eater...