Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pickens Miller, 54, onetime Rhodes scholar, veteran of both World Wars, longtime New Dealer. Miller had the social background to appeal to many Byrd-backing Virginians (as a child, his mother had been taken for rides on General Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveller) and he had the support of Virginia's growing labor movement plus a large share of the Negroes, now voting in increasing numbers...
...Congressman, Leonard Irving had been living pretty well for a $125-a-week boss of Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...
...support their diplomacy of good will, the two men encouraged Franco-German youth congresses, literary and scientific conventions, exchanged theater companies, formed a Franco-German Society. In Paris, Briand subsidized a newspaper edited by gifted Jean Luchaire...
...clinging to power since 1945, burly President Juan Jose Arevalo's left-wing government had leaned heavily on the support of its conservative strong man, Colonel Francisco J. Arana, chief of the armed forces and a member of the army junta which put Arevalo in. All told, the colonel had dutifully stamped out some 20 attempted uprisings. Last week revolutionary guns again slammed and chattered in Guatemala City, but there was no longer an Arana to quiet them. He had been assassinated. The outbreak was an unplanned, furious, futile attempt to avenge him by ousting the government...
Having spent the war years in France, the sisters arrive in New England with their hearts set on founding a children's hospital. The fact that they have neither land nor money-and not even the wholehearted support of the bishop of the diocese-is no particular worry to them. The motto of the Order of Holy Endeavor, to which they belong, is Oramus et Laboramus (We pray and work). Sisters Margaret and Scholastica do more than that...