Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directly responsible for the U.S. military effort in Viet Nam: Army General William C. Westmoreland, 50, commander of the 23,500 American servicemen in South Viet Nam and senior U.S. military adviser to South Vietnamese forces. "The war has quite obviously moved into another stage," said Westmoreland in visible relief. "Now the rules of war have changed, and policymakers in Hanoi are confronted with the necessity of balancing their resources against the damage they may suffer. They've got to take a look down that long road and decide whether they really want what lies ahead for them...
...planes of his late linoleum cuts bring out his simplification of nature in a sharper manner than his oils. Matisse found that his late, swimming arabesques could be better executed by stencils than by brush bristles. Miro learned that his love of texture was readily brought out by the relief in paper of etching. In Chagall's 13 editions on the Arabian Nights, he found that colors of lithography achieved a brazen Oriental romance that oils would have subdued with their filmy translucence...
Nivola cut costs to $30,000 by using cast concrete, sometimes in a giant sandbox. A huge slab relief dominates the playground entrance. Two 8-ft.-tall diamond-shaped fountains gurgle water through faceted gutters, and an 80-ft.-long stucco mural wall borders the childrens' plaza. The principal delight is a circus of 18 cast-stone horsies, mixed with marble dust to sparkle in three colors. They are indestructible mounts for the most tantrumy tot. A final touch is a hulking, 7-ft.-high abstract human figure, a sort of guardian nanny to children romping there...
Despite the drop in deliveries, the papers held the monthly subscription rate at $1.25; and to their relief, they drew only scattered murmurs of complaint. At Asahi Shimbun, the country's biggest daily (circ. 5,100,000), only 20 or so subscribers, said an executive, "registered unhappiness." By such evidence of reader imperturbability, the association was encouraged to hint that even greater deprivations are in store. Before the year is out, said a spokesman, the Sunday paper in its entirety, morning and evening, may be a thing of the past in Japan...
...Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964 were designed to meet this problem, but they have not succeeded. The major difficulty in the past has been that victims of discrimination have had to seek relief through the courts. And this is a slow and expensive process. Individuals may have to risk their lives and livelihoods to secure their rights. Even the Justice Department does not have a large enough staff to research and prepare the hundreds--perhaps thousands--of cases which may be necessary to strike down voting barriers...