Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tons of grain to India, granted a $100 million loan for economic aid. Burma and Thailand agreed to sell more of their rice to India. France, West Germany and Japan started sending powdered milk and vitamins for children and nursing mothers. Italians donated $6,000,000 for Indian famine relief. The response in Italy and elsewhere, said Pope Paul VI, "is one of the most beautiful things happening in our time...
...cuts of $150 million in agricultural conservation, $85 million in aid for depressed-area schools and $52 million in the school milk program. Any plan to take milk away from the kiddies is not going to get very far in Congress. Johnson also trimmed his allowances for emergency disaster relief by $100 million on the theory that there will be fewer disasters in 1967, a kind of Parkinsonian precept that the number and gravity of disasters depend upon how much money will be available for alleviating them...
...verbose 19-page ruling (with three long appendixes) that cited such diverse sources as William Pitt the Elder and Saypol himself, the judge said that Weinstein's complaint must be answered. But he seemed to chafe under the need to wait the required ten days. "The case for relief for petitioner," said Judge Saypol, "is clear...
...from his snowbound home in Maryland for the Sunday conferences that followed the U.S. decision to end the bombing pause. The Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport impassable, finally "taxied" to National Airport, close to town, aboard a DC-6. A White House guard left home in Maryland at midnight on Sunday...
...largest industrial corporations. To occupational questions from fellow airline travelers, he usually responds: "I'm in manufacturing." Recently a famous European actress seated beside him at a Hollywood dinner party asked the inevitable "What do you do?" Replied Gross: "I'm an aircraft mechanic." To his relief, the actress ignored him for the rest of the evening...