Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nightmare Landscape. The investigator is expected to process a never-ending mass of forms and applications, interview families to explore their situations and backgrounds, locate errant husbands, head off trouble-bound youngsters, find quarters for those evicted by landlords or tenement fires, worry over tardy or stolen relief checks. In between, he is supposed to provide his clients with whatever social services and counseling he deems necessary to get them off the dole and to keep them and their children from becoming "welfare addicts." Says one welfare-worker: "If I had the time, I could get a third...
...letters advertising the kit arrived at the homes of every Harvard student. For $8-89, parents were offered a moment of relief for their children during exams...
Landmark Article. As the law goes, privacy is virtually a brand-new right. Until 1890, no U.S. or British court had ever granted relief expressly for "the right to be let alone." Then came a landmark article in the Harvard Law Review by two young Boston lawyers, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (the future Supreme Court justice). As they saw it, the modern press had become so snoopy that modern man was being subjected to "mental pain and distress far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury." Their insistence on privacy as a new legal right...
...little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball off the crossbar. This time he hit Collins on the chest and heaved a sigh of relief. "Whew!" said Ryan later. "For a while I thought for sure that...
...else at the Digest really expects the Wallaces to let their concern for the magazine or their control of the product diminish markedly. But the baby does continue to grow, and the parents are getting older. Help was needed at the top, and Digest staffers are unanimous in their relief that the foster parent who was chosen comes not from the business side but from the editorial hierarchy...