Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just won't work; 3) the wishy-washy elements (the lower middle class and the farmers) desert the dominant class and go over to the proletariat; 4) internationally, the dominant class is isolated to a considerable degree, so that it can't get help from other capitalistic governments, while the proletariat can get help from fellow proletariats in other capitalistic countries and from Soviet Russia...
...investigating committee from the Organization of American States (see above) got a gala welcome in San José and was studying evidence that the attack had been staged with help from Nicaragua. In Managua, "Tacho" Somoza scoffed at the charges, awaited his chance to tell about the illegal activities of the Caribbean Legion sheltered in Costa Rica...
...CalderÓn Guardia, to attack, Tacho set up several interesting possibilities. If discontent with the Figueres regime had reached the boiling point, an overnight coup might bring Calderon to power. If the attempt failed, Tacho could rid himself of his embarrassing guests. If the Caribbean Legion intervened to help Figueres, Tacho would have a chance to turn loose his well-trained Guardia National on those sworn enemies...
...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
...general practitioner, think Allan & Kaufman, can usually take care of benign nervousness. Talking things over is often enough; the patient should have a chance to tell his story. Sedatives like phenobarbital often help; so does religion. Most general practitioners, who suspect that psychiatrists put too much emphasis on the psyche in psychosomatic, would agree...