Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compound as the Viet Cong slaughtered women and children hiding in nearby dugouts. Though U.S. and North Vietnamese planes arrived with the dawn, rolling great red gouts of napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
Deadly Draw. Then, in a bold gamble, Army Brigadier General Cao Van Vien, commander of South Viet Nam's III Corps, employed the rarest of weapons in the Saigon arsenal: imagination. Guessing that the Viet Cong had already overrun the protected jungle clearings where relief helicopters could be expected to land, Vien sent 40 choppers loaded with troops swooping suddenly onto a soccer field adjacent to the defenders' compound. Before the Viet Cong could react, the bulk of the 52nd Ranger Battalion was on the ground and fighting. By the following morning, the Communist attackers had had enough...
...Relief troops arriving to press the retreating Viet Cong looked around, vomited, then ate their rice and moved out. Marching through the monsoon rain past giant anthills and through a sepulchral rubber plantation, they came on the rolling field where the first relief force had been surrounded and wiped out. Sixty bodies lay beneath the bright green trees, while wounded flapped like broken butterflies...
Then as now, most student political activists were on the left, but the right was by no means inactive. Conservatives Merwin K. Hart Jr. '40 and Sidney Q Curtiss Jr. '40 charged that the money collected for Spanish relief the year before had actually been used for a "communistic demonstration" in Harlem. Their charge provoked how is of protest, and Student Council president Francis Keppel '38 promised to investigate...
...complex lab tests, Surgeon Eiseman ran human blood through excised pig livers, and found to his relief that they tolerated all blood types. This encouraged him to try hooking up pig livers to human patients. He and his colleagues chose eight patients in the last stages of liver coma and set up their operations as they would have for transplants. Each time, they removed the pig's liver and placed it in a steel perfusion chamber alongside the patient...