Word: samaritans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Soviet Union, in which no doubt is possible," he kicked six ranking Reds out of their jobs and out of the party. Ulbricht arrested all six on charges of conspiring with U.S. Relief Worker Noel Havilan Field, whom Ulbricht sneeringly described as "the American spy and merciful Samaritan." Field, a onetime Communist sympathizer who disappeared mysteriously in Central Europe last year (TIME, Oct. 24), has become a favorite Communist purge scapegoat. It was for conspiring with Field that Hungary's top deviationists were purged a year...
...Samaritan. In Evanston, ILL, Jay Sandercock put a penny in an expired parking meter to save a stranger from a ticket, was arrested for tampering with the meter, learned that the car had already been ticketed...
...achieving of high humanitarian purposes by the easy method of using the involuntary good Samaritan ... is not edifying. There ought to be a better method of making the legal order effective for our humanitarian ideals than that of Robin Hood or that of the pickpocket who . . . was so moved by the preacher's eloquence that he picked the pockets of everyone in reach and put the contents in the plate...