Word: relief
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...characters which added some much needed comic relief to the often heavy story line were Mrs. Watty (played by Elizabeth Newhall) and her daughter, Bessie (played by Jamie Smith). Newhall nearly stole the show in every scene in which she appeared--she was funny and feisty and always on target, as the tough, punchy Mrs. Watty, whose verve never failed to charm the audience...
...Guide to the Toddler Years (Abbeville), to his New Father series. (The first two were The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-to-Be and A Dad's Guide to the First Year.) Brott writes honestly and earnestly. His wry sense of humor will be a relief to hassled parents. He observes, for example, that at 12 to 15 months, a toddler is "becoming aware of the expressive function of language and has developed an uncanny ability to pick out--and endlessly repeat--the one swear word you accidentally slipped into a 10-minute-long conversation." Brott also...
...demonstrated that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up. And why didn't the government react by dispensing emergency food relief? Sen's answer was enlightening. Because colonial India was not a democracy, he said, the British rulers had little interest in listening to the poor, even in the midst of famine. This political observation gave rise to what might be called Sen's Law: shortfalls in food supply do not cause widespread deaths...
...still hitting the corners; and he had struck out three in a row. To the mound walks Torre, which almost always signals a pitching change, since Stottlemyre attends to nursing and instruction. Wells, who understood his fate but naturally resisted it, told Torre, "I have something left. Send [relief pitcher Jeff Nelson] back." Torre smiled and said, "Go off and get your round of applause"--a wild expectation in Cleveland. Wells smiled too, walked to the dugout, and tipped his cap to the not entirely booing crowd...
...weekend approaches, the bong waters of Oakland are still. Hundreds of "cough sufferers" have nowhere to turn for medicinal relief (except for Robutussin, but that's been no help since they reduced the alcohol quotient...