Word: succor
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...Eastern power. Having used Soviet patronage to build a military capability second only to Israel's, he smartly fell in line with the U.S.-led alliance against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Rather than engage his enemies directly, Assad preferred to operate more subtly by giving space and succor to their enemies: For decades the principal expression of his conflict with Israel over the Golan Heights was the space and support he gave to Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon; while Syria's conflict with Turkey over water resources led him to allow the Kurdish guerrillas of Abdullah Ocalan...
...guilty." His ex-wife Gretchen spoke on ABC's 20/20 of the anguish in Jonesboro, saying, "There's just no words from any of us or anything anyone can do that will ever make that right again." She met with Perry, her son's spiritual adviser, for succor, telling him that she couldn't erase the images "of the children hurting, of the parents trying to find their babies, the fact that these mothers will never get to hold their children again." Scott Johnson, who was in Fort Worth, Texas, when he heard the news, also came to Perry...
There have been charges that her sisters not only give succor to the dying but also ask if they want "tickets to heaven," surreptitiously baptizing lifelong Hindus and Muslims for Jesus. The sisters deny these accusations; in India such conversions would be met with outrage, and the charge is widely disbelieved. But such acts would be in keeping with Teresa's fervent devotion to the cause of Christ...
...succor came disguised as a first-year seminar. What could be better than, as the coursebook promised, a semester filled with characters such as Macbeth and Hannibal Lecter, or Joe Christmas and Huck Finn? Intrigued by the eclectic reading and the nature of the work, I applied to two seminars: one examining the relationship between crime and literature, the other focusing on the writings of Twain and Faulkner...
...that knowledge is tamped down because the stakes are so high. To voice any doubts might jeopardize our tenuous hold on first trimester abortions and could give aid and succor to the other side, which ranges from morons who kill doctors to the rank and file who would protect zygotes. Give those people a month and they will take nine. It will be you, your doctor and Jesse Helms at the sonogram...