Word: succour
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...television screens once again beam images of refugees jamming the red dirt roads of central Africa, and radios broadcast the crackle of gunfire from forested hills, it's clear that something needs to be done. Troops may provide succour for now; but in the long run serious pressure needs to be brought to bear on political leaders until the fighting stops...
...having lost the war on the ground, has neither the military capability nor the political clout to dictate the course of events in Mozambique; the junta's position is even weaker in Guinea-Bissau, where African nationalists unilaterally declared the country independent in September 1973 and have had the succour of international recognition by over eighty nations. African nationalists in Angola have, through the urgings of the Organization of African Unity, recently agreed to band together to fight for their independence. All in all the story of African resistance against Portuguese colonialism reveals remarkable indigenous initiative throughout the period...
...considered an early prototype of the socially conscious guerrilla fighter, "cultivating friendship with the local people, who were happy to have a protector against the marauding Philistine tribesmen, even if for this he demanded tribute. He foraged far and wide, bringing retribution where it was due and giving succour where it was needed." Even in one of the most tragic defeats of Hebrew history-the futile defense of Jerusalem against the Roman general Titus in A.D. 70-Jews displayed a fanatic resourcefulness. Making early use of the fifth column, they sent into the Roman ranks supposedly disaffected citizens who offered...
Harvard's record now stands at 14-7, 12-6 in the ECAC, and 8-1 in the Ivy League. Yale, waiting patiently for its undefeated freshman team to provide succour...
...support we hope there will be drawn a very sharp and salutary lesson for the so-called sportswriters of today, whose craven columns pale at the first signals of depair. When the lilacs send their lovely odors into the spring air, let these timid miscreants, like us, give their succour here at home, where it is most needed. Indeed, it is truly said, local loyalties are the finest flowers of civilization...