Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Music carries an article on a hip harpsichordist who turns on youthful audiences with Bach and Mozart. Baseball fans are delighted by the return of competition in the American League East; Sport relates the comeback of the New York Yankees and profiles Sparky Lyle, the relief pitcher who made it possible...
...saloonkeeper named Greaser (Albert Henderson) who keeps his mother behind bars ("You'll always be my favorite," she reassures him) and who suffers from chronic constipation. His trips to the privy are state occasions, with his retinue of dim-witted subordinates nervously circling outside, awaiting glad tidings of relief that are never forthcoming...
...since I was eleven was to get to the U.S. Senate." Should he ever be unexpectedly tapped again, he joked: "The first thing I'm going to do is ask, 'Do you know about my health problem?' " He also admitted to a vast relief that his history is now out in the open and no longer something hidden and always threatening his present...
...heat, flies, the lack of fresh food and cold beer. Drinking from bitter desert water holes led to "Wajir clap," an excruciating urinary-tract disorder caused by sharp crystals of undissolvable mica and gypsum. Prickly heat could make a man rub himself raw against a wall, al though some relief could be had by spraying from head to toe with...
...into my pill a gram of imbroglio, a gram of licentiousness, a gram of observation. As well as I can, I grind them all into a powder. And I can tell, almost without fail, the effect that they will produce...When the work is done, what a relief! I regain my freedom. Georges Feydeau...