Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relief, but not much of one: Army's highly touted Barry De-Bolt will not pitch against the Crimson baseball team Saturday. Instead, the Army coach plans to use DeBolt at Brown today and to have Mac Hayes hurl at Harvard tomorrow. Hayes, by the way, has a 9-0 varsity record...
...consultant to the Sultan, to undergo examination for a suspected tumor of the brain. The suspicion proved baseless, and after six weeks in London's National Hospital, Burgess was released, sound as a pound. In most men, the experience would have produced no more than a sigh of relief. In Burgess, it excited the wild flight of imagination that produced this novel...
...Comedy relief is supplied by a wilderness fantasy in which big brown bears chase chickens, steal honey and drive off in tractors. As ever, Cinerama achieves its surest effects in direct relation to its forward velocity, now hurtling along a snowy course with a fleet of troikas pulled by frenzied horses, now navigating with loggers on the turbulent Tisza River. The viewer may not feel that he has been through Russia, but he will almost certainly feel that Russia has been through...
...first settlement of Captain Ar thur Phillip-redcoats and canary-yellow clad convicts-nearly starved to death. A relief ship came with food and news of the French Revolution Says Moorehead: "What did they make of the terror? Were the convicts delighted that the underdog was having its day? Did any of them pause to reflect that in France, the most sophisticated country on earth, one could watch the guillotine at work in the public streets with sadistic indifference, while here in New Holland the aborigine, the most primitive of all human beings, burst into tears when he watched...
...tried to do something about the ancient stink of the picturesque airless houses and to stop children playing in the open sewers. He discovered that when appeals to charity failed, he could exploit a flair for dramatizing unpleasant statistics and shame Rome itself into granting public funds for public relief. When all else failed, he fasted...