Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wholesale roundups could lead to nothing more than a temporary cooling-off period. At worst, since most police are Protestants, they could simply compound Catholic panic and resentment. Britain's direct involvement in its new Irish "troubles," belated and reluctant as it was, provided the only measure of relief. That involvement may well increase substantially, and perhaps indefinitely, before any kind of normalcy can return to sundered Northern Ireland...
...files a joint return "stands in the shoes of her husband" and is therefore liable for any taxes owed by him. "While we sympathize with the petitioner's plight and we recognize the harshness of the result," said the court, "the inflexible statute leaves no room for relief...
...trench, then removed the muck between them through a complex electroosmosis process of his own devising. The roof to form a tunnel came last. By the time the whole subway is completed in November 1970, it should accommodate 3,600,000 passengers a day and provide some relief for residents who now get trapped in the city's Tokyo-like traffic snarls...
...over," he said, "if some foreign policy solutions have been found, if inflation is rolled back, Nixon might be very difficult to beat." Humphrey made it clear that he expects no such miracle: "Nixon is coasting. He is in trouble. He is taking aspirin for relief when he should be taking something stronger for a cure. A President needs long-range vision, not a daily balance sheet." Hubert Humphrey's vision is clearly long-range enough to extend to the possibility of a rematch...
...tradition was reversed when the House took a long-overdue step toward granting the country's front-line taxpayers some R & R from the financial wars. By a lopsided vote of 394 to 30, the House approved a bill that would ultimately give citizens $9.2 billion worth of relief, by lowering certain tax payments, and the Treasury $6.9 billion worth of reform, by plugging various loopholes...