Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
Standing $2,400 short of their $25,000 goal, more than 13,000 members of the University community contributed $22,600 during an intensive three-week campaign to help feed under-nourished students abroad, Food Relief Committee leaders disclosed late last night as they officially wrote finis to the Second Emergency Food Drive...
Boosted by this new contribution, University food relief totals for the period from May 1946, to March, 1947, soared to $38,000, nearly twice as much as any other university has given during the same length of time...
...Defensively, block the two main Communist aims, which at present are "consolidation of effective domination of Eurasia, and the infiltration and weakening of all countries which cannot be brought under Communist control." Offensively, the U.S. can help friendly, non-Communist nations by "loans, relief, mutually profitable trading agreements, machines, floods of wanted consumers' goods, easy financial terms. . . . They could all be made to repeat the lesson that it is a materially pleasant and profitable thing to be associated with the United States. . . . Concessions alone would not, however, be enough. . . . The realization that it is good to be a friend...
...trade committee would seek relief for the religious, fraternal and labor press...