Word: succor
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...were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie of calling 75,000 men for three months to fight...
...campaign, which will last this year for three or four days, is conducted annually at Harvard and other American universities. Its principle is not one of charity but of succor to the students of Europe, who would not otherwise to able to receive an education. In the years which it has been tried at the University, it has met with very notable success in raising a large contribution to the national fund...
...four young Villagers, male, is jarred by the unconscious arrival of one more Villager, female. She is banged in the head by a brutal escort four stories below (although, to let you into a secret, the irate voices really come from the orchestra). The young men gallantly offer her succor, and abandon their apartment to her for the night when it appears that she is unable to leave...
Origin. General Booth's father, William, left the Methodist ministry in 1865 in order to succor the lost sheep of London's East End. Thirteen years later, William and his wife Catherine* whipped their missions into a military organization. Their Army grew phenomenally as it advanced from post to post. The conquest of the U. S. dated from...
...much as a ray of hope that the impending loan would be used for the restoration of devastated Russia or to succor her starving people, I should welcome this help with delight, without consideration through the hands of what Russian government it passed...