Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Angrily, the Russians protested that their own doctor would take care of the woman, that they needed no outside help. Police summoned an ambulance anyway. There was another brief scuffle, when police seized a letter written by Mrs. Kosenkina to a friend in Moscow. (The letter was returned to consular officials...
Last week Dyaks were brought to Malaya again. This time they were hired to help wipe out the Communist guerrillas who have been terrorizing the country (TIME, Aug. 2). As three British Army trucks jolted them into a secret jungle camp, the first contingent of 49 Dyaks whooped a rousing greeting to their new hunting ground...
...young fighter asked a British officer: "What is a Communist?" The Briton decided that Dyak education had not progressed far enough for a precise understanding of that one. He answered: "Bad man." Replied the Dyak: "We want to help; we don't like...
...there any way to prevent suicide? The researchers made no recommendations, but they threw out some hints. Close family ties help; married people try suicide less often than the single, widowed or divorced; the divorced have the highest rate of all. Strong religious ties also help; there is comparatively little suicide among Catholics and Jews. Wars in general decrease suicide because they bring prosperity, make it easier for people to have "a sense of belonging...
...happy result: a pat on the back from the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Though "it is not our normal function to advertise any manufacturer," said a N.R.D.G.A. bulletin, Lee Skirt is providing "a reliable garment at a price which should . . . help overcome the public dissatisfaction over the price situation." A happier result: the company expects to gross more than $1,000,000 in 1948, a 100% increase in a year...