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See: abet, accommodation, aid, alleviate, assist, assistance, avail, backing, bear, benefit, benevolence, betterment, bolster, contribute, contribution, donation, favor, foster, help, nurture, relief, relieve, remedy, serve, service, soothe, support How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| For more than 45 years, she has comforted destitute old people dying in the gutter, sheltered infants abandoned in trash heaps, soothed the putrid ulcers of lepers and succored the insane. Sontag describes a gruesome public hanging; Jones describes a pamphlet that Alphonsus wrote for chaplains who succored their charges as they were brought to the scaffold. Local and state leaders who delivered for him got hegemony over the administration of alphabet agencies spewing money and jobs into their fiefs; those who displeased him saw the dependent in their midst succored by bureaucrats in Washington. |
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