Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trapped at the river, the marines called in air strikes. Even so, the heavy attack continued. "The air was chopping them to pieces, but they kept coming at us," said Staff Sergeant John J. McGinty. All but ten men of McGinty's platoon had been wounded before a relief company arrived to pull them out. Ho Chi Minh's men got off even worse. Napalm, McGinty said, "cooked them" in the formerly Marine foxholes they had taken over, and at least 200 were killed...
Nature's relief, the cool jet stream from Canada, was pushed out of its normal path by a unique high-pressure system, as impenetrable as a brick wall eight miles high. The barrier actually comprised three immense, tightly interlocked, high-pressure cells without precedent in more than a decade. At week's end one of the highs, out in the Pacific, shifted a bit, and a welcome Arctic draft sneaked through the wall to break-at least temporarily-the dog days of July. August was yet to come...
...Relief Pitcher Dick Hall is an amateur mathematician who on drizzly afternoons amuses himself trying to predict whether a game will be called off -by calculating the number of raindrops falling per second on one square foot of the field. Rightfielder Frank Robinson used to be known as "the meanest man in the National League," before he was traded to the Orioles by the Cincinnati Reds last winter. Now he is the meanest man in both leagues -with the possible exception of Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer (TIME cover, Sept...
...Moon Lake Casino, and Kay Francis movies at the Delta Brilliant Theater. Added excitement turns up, though, in the person of Robert Redford, exuding chin-out charm as a railroad troubleshooter who comes to town with enough pink dismissal slips to put most of Mama's boarders on relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal cold. Sister Willie, in a teary epilogue, attributes Alva's off-screen death to "lung affection...
...Bank of England's action will provide short-term relief for the pound by attracting back to English banks some of the money that has been siphoned off owing to more attractive interest rates elsewhere and uncertainty over the pound. But in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson hinted that for the long term further austerity measures may be necessary...