Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front door open for himself and his dogs. Intrigued with this bit of noblesse oblige, I inquired if he had rewarded her in the customary fashion with "thank you." "I don't recall that he did," my mother replied. Only sportsmen will understand my profound sense of relief for that answer. No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest." When one considers that he did so in the prepituitary era, it is doubly awesome...
Coming from the old pornographer who has been monotonously celebrating himself for years in such tomes as Sexus, Nexus and Plexus, the report was an astonishing relief. "I've written everything I want to say," announced Henry Miller, 74-at long last. From now on, said Miller as he opened a show of his fanciful watercolor paintings in Los Angeles' Westwood Art Association gallery, he will chase down his muse primarily with brushes. "It seems to me that the battle for freedom on the sex problem has been won," he proclaimed. Then, in a meditation that many wish...
Cincinnati shipped 30-year old Frank Robinson to the American League to try his hand with Baltimore. In return, the Reds got Milt Pappas, Jack Baldschun, and Dick Simpson. Pappas will join Jim Maloney, Sam Ellis, and Joey Jay in the starting pitchers' rotation. Relief help will come largely from erratic Jim O'Toole and veteran Joe Nux-hall...
...poverty, for example, as a "pitifully inadequate and misdirected" rearguard action that is bound to fail because it treats the symptoms rather than the causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...spring of 1965 he served as chief of the U.S. Emergency Relief Mission in the Dominican Republic...