Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disciples of Karl Marx." one councillor declared, referring to the "deep-seated and far-reaching conspiracy which has as its aim the capturing of the very government of the city itself." Although Harvard did not deign to counter this charge, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the resolution turned out to have been only a publicly stunt designed by one of the councillors to pigeonhole other legislation before the Council...
...Lucius Amerson sat in a Tuskegee office on election day fidgeting over the latest returns. At 8:15 p.m., a young campaign worker hung up the phone and exultantly pounded a fist on the table. "You won!" the youth cried. "You won!" Amerson leaned back and laughed with relief. By a 387-vote margin, the stocky ex-postal clerk had be come the first Alabama Negro to win a Democratic nomination for sheriff since the misty days of Reconstruction...
...most dramatic form of epilepsy, the grand mal that throws its victims to the ground in fits, drugs often offer dramatic relief. Strangely, it is a less violent form of the disorder, the so-called psychomotor type, for which drugs do least. For some 50% of psychomotor epileptics, or at least 160,000 Americans, surgery is the only recourse. But in many cases surgeons hesitate to cut out those parts of the brain in which electrical impulses are misfiring and causing all the trouble. For if they cut out too much tissue or cut in the wrong place, they...
Chasing down stories in Saigon itself becomes so exasperating that, for many of the press corps, a chance to go into the field with the troops comes as a welcome relief. "It may sound corny," explains the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie, "but it's refreshing to get out where people say what they mean." Viet Nam press-corps veterans have unanimous praise for the cooperation available at every level in the combat areas. "They are terribly frank," says Australian Simmons. "Sometimes, I think, too bloody frank." Combat reporting has its own special problems, of course...
...more temporary suggestion to the space problem has been the construction of shelves in the Widener light courts. This idea may still be used, although officials doubt it can provide permanent relief...