Word: succoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swift to send aid were the British, French and Italian governments, all of which despatched war vessels with supplies for the 10,000 Corinthians who are now homeless, shelterless. Swifter still came the succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
...giant Ford trimotored liner. At Lake Ste. Agnes, Bennett had a fever of 102, could go no further. He was rushed to Quebec, deathly ill of pneumonia. Commander Richard Byrd came to his side; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made an inspired flight to bring him succor (see MEDICINE, p. 22). Canada suddenly contained a noble percentage of the world's greatest fliers, for by now Clarence D. Chamberlin had joined the arctic air circus...
...hatchets, crowbars. Terrestrial Marines picked up eagerly these useful tools. They had just captured Quilali from General Augusto Sandino (see above) after a hot fight (TIME, Jan. 9), which continued, last week, resulting in the death of one more Marine, and the wounding of five more. It was to succor wounded Marines that the picks, shovels, hatchets and crowbars rained down. With them an emergency landing field was cleared, smoothed. When planes could land and take off, the more seriously wounded Marines, totaling nine, were flown, one at a time to the Nicaraguan Capital of Managua, and there tucked into...
...fabulous days of the first crusade (1096-99) there came into being the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. The purpose of this order was to succor crusaders and pilgrims into the Holy Land. Through the centuries the organization has been preserved, changing its name in 1310 to the Knights of Rhodes, in 1530 to the Knights of Malta; never changing its purpose- the performance of acts of mercy. It is the most ancient of such organ- izations in the Catholic Church...
Hero. A fierce, tropical storm was raging when orders came for the five U. S. bombers to soar up from their base at Managua and succor the 39 marines besieged in Ocotal. He who led the bombers through the storm was 42-year-old Major Ross Erastus ("Rusty") Rowell, an airman only four years in the service...