Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work at the Worcester Art Museum testifies to this. Repulsion and fascination are wrenched out of your guts when your eyes interlock with those of dwarves, transvestites, nudists, howling babies, and even a human pin cushion. What small sympathy you can muster is directed inward, as you beg for relief from Arbus's harrowing onslaught, and are left numb when none comes. The impact grows stronger as the images accumulate, making it impossible to steel yourself against further mental Iaceration...
...them, New York and Pennsylvania, approved tuition reimbursements or tax relief of up to $150 per child (tuition generally ranges from $200 to $750). New York also authorized $28 million a year to its 2,000 non-public schools for the costs of state-required testing and record keeping, plus another $4 million to 280 schools for maintenance and repair of buildings...
Nowhere is the American penchant for pilfering more in evidence than in Boston Common. Ever since 1897, the north side of the common has been dominated by a massive monument with a bronze bas-relief of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the white leader of the first black U.S. regiment, who was killed leading a Civil War assault on South Carolina's Fort Wagner. The only problem with the statue was Shaw's bronze sword. It kept disappearing. First the original, then another and another, until the colonel had been rearmed no less than a dozen times. Finally...
...left behind has helped organize P.O.W. wives, and she now is a selectwoman of her town. Before Ken's return, she worried that she would be reluctant to give up the responsibilities she had taken on in his absence. Instead she finds she has "this tremendous sense of relief. There's no longer a void to fill...
...were able to apply their training immediately to benefit their homeland. Nine Nicaraguan physicians were enrolled in the course at the time of the earthquake that devastated Managua in 1972. As soon as they completed their training, the university provided $30,000 to help them set up a special relief project to aid the quake victims...