Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause of poverty: the fact that two poverty-stricken people are encouraged to multiply the problem by producing new poverty cases. Politicians might consider an annual cash bonus for nonproduction, the amount to double for the second year, triple for the third, etc. This might eventually get parents off relief and reduce the future relief load...
...Scalpels. The operation's success brought a wave of relief-and some good-natured jokes. According to one, Lyndon had ordered his surgeon to use 150 scalpels so he could pass them out to Congressmen in lieu of pens. Another averred that, immediately on awakening, Lyndon aimed to telephone Hubert: "Get out of my chair." In fact, Humphrey got nowhere near it. For a few hours, he was on call in the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House, but no call ever came. His unofficial tenure as Acting President was over by lunchtime...
Emigrating Cubans will be forced to live on federal relief with their relatives in the already over-crowded ghettos of Miami, New York City, and Newburg, N.Y. This kind of oversight does not seem to represent the best "humanitarian tradition...
...night watchmen were not so sure of that. Under University Police protection, only one Radcliffe watchman would be on duty in the Quad from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly. Another man would patrol Radcliffe Yard and the third watchman would do relief work. Presently, the Quad area is patrolled by four men working two shifts from...
...kept it on for long periods, his family noticed that his speech was slurred, he seemed a trifle tipsy and unduly gay. The patient himself said that a jolt of current left him feeling as though he had downed two martinis - with (he added benefit of immeasurably greater pain relief...