Word: abetted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Translated out of Communist jargon, this meant that the strike leaders were admittedly striving to block the recovery of France, to torpedo the Marshall Plan, and thus to abet the purposes of Moscow...
...smaller municipal organizations. Although extensive, its fields of activity are primarily social. It appoints chaplains to state institutions, coordinates social and clerical work, forms and publishes opinions on current legislation and provides religious educators for public schools. Part of the Council's energy is channelled off to aid and abet the Church World Service Center, which is itself an interdenominational organization devoted to the dispensing of overseas relief. It also runs a weekly radio program of discussion on international relations called "One World" which until his departure was under the aegis of Harvard's Dr. Carl Friedrich...
Detroit's two great pitchers, Dizzy Trout (won 23, lost 10) and Left-hander Hal Newhouser (22-8), had a good chance of exceeding Dizzy & Paul Dean's 1934 total of 49 wins. To aid and abet this outstanding pitching, the Tigers had Sluggers Rudy York (16 home runs) and Navy-released Dick Wakefield. Pitcher Trout himself was the sluggingest pitcher in the League, with five home runs to his credit. But if hitting would do it, the Red Sox were in. The club led the League in batting, boasted the three top individual averages...
...after him like a pack of soprano hounds. Regina (Marsha Hunt), the stage-struck eldest, wants the reporter's hand because she thinks that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
Animals don't get loose without some malicious spirit to aid and abet them, and boojums are the most malevolent of all spirits as anyone who has hunted for snarks can tell you. We know that the boojums feel slighted by your article, and wish you would apologize to them...