Word: befriend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group members will "teach, counsel, and befriend" the delinquents, Rubenstein added, but will not try to "cast themselves in the role of junior psychiatrists...
...women as well as ordained ministers-were busily evangelizing Latin America in a Protestant movement that is reaching major proportions. Protestant missionaries face the spears of Ecuador's Auca Indians; they educate-and influence-Catholic children squeezed from parochial schools by the continent-wide shortage of classrooms; they befriend the thousands of bewildered European and Asian immigrants who arrive each year only to run up against the language-barricaded snobbery of many Latins...
That night Li Po angrily snapped out the lamp as Mr. Huang read his newspaper. "There is a light in the other room," he informed his host briskly. "You are wasting electricity, the people's money and the people's sweat and labor." Hoping to befriend his nephew, Mr. Huang offered him candy. Li Po shot out his hand eagerly, withdrew it when he saw the English lettering on the wrappers. "I do not eat goods of the enemy," he said, and turned his head away...
Thieves' Carnival begins when three yeggs befriend a bored and not ingenuous matron. Her daughter is later involved. First offering of Lyric Productions which has brought off-Broadway roughly 217 miles. Fine Arts Theatre...
...communists. Aside from the obvious moral implication here, it is evident that the tyrannical smaller group is denying, or at least controlling, the liberty of its masses; yet are we not, in denouncing the communists, denying their liberty to do this? It would seem therefore that we merely befriend liberty in a relative way; i.e. by granting the liberty (within the limits of law) to all in accord with us; Thus, in opposing communism as such, we are also a tyranny, and thus cannot pretend to represent true liberty in the first place (e.g. in being as supra-liberal minded...