Word: succor
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...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 Ivinskaya has provided what might be his epitaph, in the first lines of a Pasternak poem that remains unpublished in Russia...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...
...piece of cake is larger than his. Fairness, evenhandedness, seems a natural property of equality-first come, first served-and accounts for that deep-seated American prejudice against queue jumpers and insiders' advantages. Equality also speaks to the generous impulses: the readiness to help the other fellow and succor the needy, the unwillingness to seem superior to one's fellow man or lord it over...
Meanwhile, the girls are explaining to anyone within earshot why the clandestine bordellos should be reopened. "To begin with," said a petite blonde named Paula at one press conference, "we bring business to neighborhood shopkeepers. Secondly, we succor bodies in distress. Finally, we're all mothers, you know, and you can't expect us to live on the government's family allowance...