Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonobstreperous relief, the President conferred at week's end with a bipartisan delegation of 38 state Governors. In exuberant vein, Johnson hymned his concept of "creative federalism," pointing out, not exactly in passing, that his Administration is giving ever-heftier federal aid to the states. The session ended with a unanimous resolution by the Governors attesting that they "wholeheartedly support and endorse" U.S. policy in Viet Nam. The resolution was proposed by Ohio's Republican Governor James Rhodes and seconded by New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...long run, shortages may be eliminated by the nonferrous-metal industry's current expansion drive, which includes Anaconda's recent decision to spend $400 million to $600 million to increase its copper output 50% by 1970. For faster relief, metal men are looking to Washington. They winced last year when the Government threatened to dump part of its stockpile to force back aluminum-price hikes. Now they only wish that the General Services Administration would accelerate plans to sell off eighteen kinds of stockpiled metals this year to ease the squeeze...
...taken on a new course, and night after night he sat at his desk composing his lectures. Meanwhile, his wife sat on the couch near by, quietly scribbling away with a pencil. One evening she stopped, drew a firm line on the paper and said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read the pages covered with his wife's precise handwriting, and discovered to his amazement that it was a suspense tale about a British couple who undertook...
...suggested for a start that a less lively ball be used. Reeling off facts like pitches in batting practice, Veeck said that today's average game takes 22 minutes longer to score 20 per cent fewer runs with 600 per cent more relief pitching and 40 per cent more bases on on balls...
...quicken the game, he suggested that an intentional pass should be automatic without the pitcher's having to throw four balls, that the ball should not be chucked around the infield after every out, and that relief pitchers who have been warming up for seven innings" should not throw eight warmup pitches when they enter the game...