Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Influential former Premier Michel Debré is pressing for more controls; Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing argue for more free enterprise. Though the Gaullists see no compelling political reasons at the moment for relaxing the present unpopular controls, most Frenchmen are confident that relief will come later this year. Reason: the next French presidential election must be held by December, and De Gaulle will want his voters to be contented and prospering...
Licorice extracts have been used since the days of Hippocrates for the relief of indigestion, but Scientist Doll has little faith in old wives' remedies. Still, he could not forget that digitalis, the first useful drug for heart disease, came from an old wives' brew of foxglove, and he remembered that a Dutch pharmacist had made a reputation during World War II selling a licorice concoction for ulcers. Dr. Doll decided that there was no harm in trying...
Dieringer's Mercury. In third place was another factory Ford; in fourth, another Moore Mercury. Ford officials breathed a sigh of relief-until the next race...
Pettigrew said that employment, the only area in which the 1964 Civil Rights Act affects the North, is the most important problem. The amount of crime and dependence upon relief among Negroes can be traced in part to their high unemployment rate and the low wages of those who are employed, he added...
...impossible to follow. He gave the film immense scale and ponderousness at the expense of pace; it is practically a series of paintings. The conspiring boyars stare malignantly from the shadows, Ivan stands, kneels, and writhes before fearsome religious images, great armies, and burning cities. There is almost no relief from the sheer weight of evil...