Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading down into it. These were the life liners and were fastened above to the boat deck. Halfway down one of these ropes was a woman in yellow, clinging to it like a monkey to a stick. A man with a red face was in the boat trying to help her in; he looked up; his mouth was open and his eyes looked like saucers...
...regard to the referendum Gottlieb stated that he had already been offered $300 to help with the expense of the referendum. Ten per cent of the chapters or ten per cent of the membership of 7,000 must sign the petition asking for a referendum if it is to be carried...
While Russia floundered, Finland, as a result of the League of Nations' sanctioning help, grew stronger. A Finnish delegation in Washington got the U. S. Navy to release 40 fast Brewster pursuit planes ordered for the Navy, placed orders for ammunition and machine guns. In Paris, after a meeting of the Supreme Allied War Council, Premier Daladier announced that France had already given Finland assistance "that is not mediocre"-presumably weapons. Sweden sent her neighbor 37 airplanes and released from military service 10,000 men, who promptly "volunteered" to help the Finns. With Great Britain and Italy also unofficial...
...hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought from Manhattan. She did it complete with drapes of chintz and tweed, turned out uniforms for the help, wound up with small items, toothpicks and swizzlesticks in black...
...cannot soothe my griefs nor help me bear them