Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to make the Corps a haven for draft dodgers, but some relief for Corpsmen from the present system would seem only fair. Perhaps all the volunteers should be given six weeks basic training before going overseas and be placed in the standby reserve upon their return. This would assure the Corpsmen's participation in the military, and would prevent their being called upon to serve for an unjustly long time...
...least for the moment, and that the Legislature still regard the optimum size of the University as that which will have space for all who apply. Some other states have established two-year junior colleges for the doubtfully prepared or those with limited educational aims, but very little relief of this kind for the University of Illinois seems to be in prospect...
...rained at all this year, and in 1962 only six inches of rain fell, the lowest record in memory. "In La Laguna," goes the expression, "it doesn't rain water, it rains dust." Last month, 30 blue-painted trucks with the federal government's CONASUPO relief agency emblem arrived to start distributing food. CONASUPO used to operate only in Mexico City. But now, says La Laguna operations director Gilberto Martinez, "there's more suffering here than in Mexico City. There are cases of children getting no meals...
...that they would rather fight than work: the lazy lazzaroni rise to defend their ancient tradition of indolence. On Sept. 27, grim little groups break out their hidden weapons and converge on German units. A substantial enemy force is besieged in a soccer stadium. German columns rush to its relief. But the vermin of the Vomero pile barricades in their wretched alleys, volley grenades from the rooftops, take potshots from parked cars. Even the snotty-nosed scugnizzi manage to get guns and march against the Germans in infantine battalions...
Like ambitious moonlighters holding down two tough jobs, the Chinese of Formosa are trying to build up their precarious economy while maintaining one of the world's costliest military machines-600,000 armed men in a population of 11 million. To the surprise of Asia, the relief of the U.S., and the embarrassment of Red China, Formosa's economic effort is succeeding. So much so, in fact, that this week Howard Parsons, the new director on Formosa for the U.S. Agency for International Development, told the Taipei press: "Within a few years, Taiwan will be in a position...