Word: relief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "We now know that Governor Dewey will carry New York State by 50,000 and will be the next President of the United States." Deweymen sighed in relief. Everything was all right, after all. A rumor swept the ballroom that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...
...complaining of difficulty in breathing. Doctors, hurrying to answer calls, quickly concluded that the fog was lethal mainly to elderly people suffering from asthma or heart trouble. But they were puzzled about its effects. Victims seemed to suffer partial paralysis of the diaphragm. Nothing but oxygen seemed to bring relief...
...last seconds ticked off. He scarcely breathed. He held on to a post to steady himself . . . When the announcer shouted 'Now!' and there came this tremendous burst of light, followed ... by the deep-growling roar of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of tremendous relief." Oppenheimer recalls that two lines of the Bhagavad-Gita flashed through his mind: "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds...
...Nihilists gave way to the King George for President Club in '28. This band of Royalists adopted a platform urging "amsigamation of Canada and the U. S., Grenadier Guards in place of Harvard cops, and cascara for Farmer's Relief." The Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 came up to speak for Smith, and Republicans joined with the Cotton Workers' union in a Hoover parade...
Today and tomorrow, regular day forces will remain on duty later and the night relief group will arrive earlier, in order to counteract the usual series of minor vandalism and disfiguration...