Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moral Support. But if, in fact, Korean wives often did take their purchases straight to the side streets of Seoul, Pusan and Taegu, which are lined with black markets whose vendors do not even bother to remove the PX labels from their wares, they were not the only source of supply. As one Korean put it: "Much of the stuff never gets to the PX in the first place. It goes straight to the black market from the warehouse." Sometimes it never even gets to the warehouse; last week a truckload of 84 cases of U.S. butter valued...
...Logistic Support. In San Miguel, N. Mex., when county officials were on the verge of closing the one-room grade school for lack of students, the hamlet's residents averted the peril by hiring a teacher with three school-age children...
...says, and Hera, his wife, might be a garden-club president. When Zeus, who favors the Trojans, remarks that Hera protects the Greeks as if they were her own bastards, she replies pertly: "Revered Son of Cronus, what a thing to say!" Cartoonist Ronald Searle's illustrations wittily support Graves's wry treatment of the Olympians. Whether or not Graves's Iliad will endure as a satire, it is certainly the most charming translation in English since Pope's, and may also be the best. At the end of his preface, Graves promises to pour...
Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). As a Western con man, the late Errol Flynn (on film) peddles his saloon just before the mines that support the town play...
...unjust to prevent students already holding grants or fellowships from renewing them, for many have planned their education around these funds. But as long as the NSF affidavit remains, it will serve as a dangerous precedent. Any sort of participation in the NSF program at this time serves to support the very affirmation of belief which Harvard so vigorously protests...