Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's high spirits proved contagious. "There is a strong feeling of relief here," said one presidential assistant. "A feeling of 'let's get out there...
...Cypress Point is considered the most dazzling in the world. It is a par three that requires a sheer carry of 233 yards over what Crosby termed "mollusk country" to a pocket handkerchief-sized green situated on a rocky palisade. As Jimmy Demaret once said, "There is no relief. The only place you can drop the ball over your shoulder is in Honolulu." Only two men have ever made a hole-in-one on the 16th at Cypress Point. One of them is Bing Crosby...
...works stimulus package, are steps in the right direction--and about as much as can be expected from an Administration that never was full-employment oriented in the first place. The plan's tax credits and benefit increases are also helpful, especially since they will bring some measure of relief to overburdened state and local welfare programs...
...city to adopt emergency conservation measures, including converting the city's electrical power generators to higher-cost fuel oil and reducing street lighting. For the past five years, an average of 156 people a day have telephoned or visited the city utility offices asking for some kind of relief or further credit or, at least, that their gas not be shut...
...program arcs from the Beach Boys to Beethoven, Indian sitar music to music of the Renaissance, the Vienna Boys Choir to the Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans. In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to explore the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, style. Sidlin provides comic relief as, at a flick of his baton, he changes from conductor to the Melody Doctor or to the loudmouthed host of What's That Rhythm?, a talk-show parody. Each program ends on an upbeat, with excerpts from such masterpieces as Sibelius' Finlandia and Mussorgsky's Pictures...