Word: relief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn Dodgers walked victorious off the field one night, because everybody on both sides had forgotten an old baseball rule. In the ninth inning, with two out and the tying Pittsburgh Pirate runs on base, Brooklyn's Manager Burt Shotton put in a relief pitcher, then yanked him with the count only three-and-one. At the time, nobody objected. But in the clubhouse after the game, an ex-sportwriter advised Pittsburgh's Manager Billy Meyer to protest: the Dodgers had violated Rule 17 (a relief pitcher must handle at least one batter). Confessed Manager Meyer: "I pulled...
Reluctant Givers. Recently the government asked China's wealthy to donate $1,000,000 (U.S.) for the relief of war refugees. The "special relief levy" met with a chilly response from such men as Tu Yueh-sheng, Shanghai's richest and most powerful citizen, who sits on the boards of 44 business enterprises and eight benevolent associations. Tu, who got his start as the Al Capone of the city's underworld, didn't want to give anything at first. After Shanghai's Mayor K. C. Wu threatened to publish the names of wealthy nongivers...
...Relief from pain was "miraculous"; within 20 minutes Mihlan was resting comfortably. As an added precaution, he was given intravenous fluids and penicillin. The aluminum foil, which looks like the inside wrapping of a cigarette package, acts as a seal for the body fluids that seep from burned surfaces. It also helps kill bacteria, speeds healing. Twelve days after being bandaged, Mihlan was out of bed. Last week, unscarred, but temporarily reddened, he left the hospital...
Winchell, he jeered: "Winchell calls that work. To me, it's fun. After heavy reporting on two national conventions, turning out froth and fripperies is relaxation and relief." He will lose that job next week, when Winchell returns from vacation to turn out froth and fripperies of his own, which are more spiteful and more readable. Turn of the Screw. One of the most prolific writers in the business, an expert in the sentimental, tough-guy school of prose, horn-rimmed Jack Lait has inherited Mark Bellinger's crown as king of the hacks. He figures that...
...Washington, Dennis A. FitzGerald, chief of ECA's food division, hopefully predicted that the unexpected production would permit "appreciably larger" grain exports to Europe. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer took sharp exception. Said he: "The emphasis is now on recovery, not on relief . . . It may now be time to give some attention to the interests of the American housewife...