Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naousa is an important textile town, 90 miles west of Salonika, whose prewar population of 12,000 had been more than doubled by refugees. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Low, going into Naousa with a government relief column, found the people-those who remained-numbly picking their way through' rubble and wreckage, as though dazed by some cataclysm of nature. There had been a cataclysm, but it was manmade. The Communist guerrillas had taught the townspeople, as they had taught many other Greeks elsewhere, not to be friendly with the Athens government, and especially not with Americans...
After three days, hearing that government relief columns were on the way, the Communists prepared to leave. They picked out 700 townspeople to go with them as captives. One girl tearfully protested: "Capitanos, I am pregnant. What use can I be to you?" The guerrilla leader strolled up to her and ripped open the bodice of her dress. He laughed and said: "Not much milk for a woman who claims to be with child." To his men he said: "Take her with the others. She should know better than...
After his first Broadway show, See America First, flopped in 1916, he decided to see Europe again. He joined a war relief agency, then the French Foreign Legion, and was in a French artillery outfit on the western front...
...spring or fall were found to be sensitive to pollens, as well as to certain foods. Harkavy brought on attacks by injecting the pollens. When they were immunized against the pollens, and avoided the troubling foods, two of the patients were free of gout. The classical remedy-colchicine-gives relief from pain. But the trick is to find out what the victim is allergic to, says Harkavy. It might be the grapes of the rich man's champagne or his rare roast beef; it might be the poor man's cabbage or the malt and hops...
...Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader may feel an unreasonable sense of relief...