Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic side of the New Hampshire primary, Lyndon Johnson got 29,317 write-in votes for President and Bobby Kennedy got 25,094 for Vice President. The 4,223-vote difference was not much, but it drew a sigh of relief that could be heard right in the White House oval office...
Frequently the Hahnlosers took the overnight sleeper to Paris and nearly always returned with crates of paintings and graphics. On one early trip Dr. Arthur bought a nude that he praised as having "cool, exact, beautifully executed lines, and whose intensely clear colors appeared like such a relief from the general air of muggy sensuality." It turned out to be by a fellow Swiss named Felix Vallotton, a member of the Nabis and soon a lifelong friend of the collectors...
...West Germany last summer after the FBI began investigating her sex habits. "Elly" is remembered as a sometime hostess at the Quorum Club, a Washington watering spot for lobbyists and Congressmen that Baker helped organize. Though Baker, as well as other men about Washington, probably breathed a sigh of relief when Elly left, he apparently had no part in getting her deported. She was subsequently divorced by her West German army sergeant husband on grounds of "conduct contrary to matrimonial rules...
Each government tried to make propaganda capital out of the perfidy of the other. Hastily assembling a delegation of foreign correspondents, India raced them to relief camps in Assam, where 50,000 Hindus and Christians had fled to escape Moslem persecution, arson, and murder. It was not easy to assess the accuracy of all the atrocity stories being handed the press. One group said that it had been machine-gunned by Pakistani border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort...
When Daniel Seltzer chose a reading of Tamburlaine the Crest for the first production in the Loeb's Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival, he set himself a number of problems. The tone of Marlowe's two-part Tamburlaine is almost uninterruptedly bombastic; what scant relief there is comes from the DcMille-like spectacles of battles, suicides, and a scene in which Tamburlaine's chariot is drawn by four captive kings...