Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last week ended three months of negotiations and signed a military assistance pact. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will provide Siam's poorly equipped 50,000-man army with $10 million worth of modern weapons and transport. It will also dispatch officers and technicians to help train the Siamese in the use of the new arms and equipment. Sample instruction : the care and operation of the jeep...
Shopping in Manhattan for some homecoming gifts, Sarah Churchill, 36, actress daughter of Winston, said: "I'd rather like a Mixmaster, one of those marvelous ice-cream machines, and some of those lovely kitchen gadgets that help you wash dishes...
...tonk circuit and left Sedalia, Mo., a town revered by ragtimers as New Orleans is by the jazzbos, and set himself up as a respectable teacher in St. Louis. He turned out rags by the dozens (including Peacherine Rag and The Easy Winners), and even six serious etudes to help "amateur players" learn how to keep that steady beat with the left hand while syncopating off the beat with the right. His biggest ambition was to compose a ragtime opera. Before he died in 1917, he had written two (A Guest of Honor, Treemonisha) and a folk ballet. Each...
...Philadelphia is home to bustling Jimmy Dykes, and the era of Infielder Dykes was a winning one. As manager for the Chicago White Sox for twelve years (1934-45), Jimmy had done wonders by persuading second-rate material that it could win a game now & then. If anyone could help the A's, perhaps Jimmy could...
...baby out of every 800 is born with a cleft palate. Uncorrected, the condition makes normal speech impossible. Rival schools in medicine and dentistry have long argued over the best time and the best way to perform surgery to help these handicapped children. Most orthodox surgeons favor operating at about 18 months-to prevent the development of bad speech habits and to ward off nose and throat diseases...