Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What we have is a troop train carrying relief and medical supplies to a snowy Nevada cavalry fort supposedly afflicted by an outbreak of cholera. As the train chugs onward through the mountains, bodies proliferate like Ten Little Indians, telegraph wires go dead, troop cars are uncoupled and plunge spectacularly into ravines. As always in MacLean, alarming quantities of wine and whisky are consumed...
...everyone in this off-Broadway theater raises his or her hand! These days, at least in this circle, it's right-on to piss-in-the-sink. More likely you'd be ashamed to own up to the up-tightness signaled by a negative reply. The sense of shocked relief and release that the real Lenny's audiences felt as he ventured like a holy fool over still almost inviolable taboos and came back intact is replaced by affable self-congratulations. We're all one big hip and happy family...
...Patisserie Francaise, hidden in Boylston Street's collection of below street-level restaurants, offers relief from the madding undergraduate crowd common in Square restaurants. In exchange for somewhat expensive prices, the Patisserie provides several varieties of croissants, coffee, sandwiches and pastry. And if you are fortunate to find a seat it is yours for as long as it takes you to read the paper or write a portion of your current manuscript...
While consumers reeled from violent run-ups in food prices last year, and at one point even organized a nationwide meat boycott, farmers happily harvested record profits. In 1974, the roles are being reversed: consumers can at last sight some relief from food inflation, and the farmers are talking about-and in some cases organizing-boycotts to keep their incomes from sliding...
...agreement provides relief for economically depressed nations, like Italy, that happen to have large gold reserves. Many other financially beset countries, such as India, do not have large gold reserves. Thus, U.S. Treasury officials doubt that much gold will actually be used as collateral in the future...