Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to teaching much-needed English courses in Dar es Salaam and other major cities in Tanganyika, the Project hopes to place volunteer workers in hospitals, dispensaries, or public health programs across the country. Bennett said there might also be famine relief work such as two project members did during the summer...
Last week's events caused both candidates to backtrack. Though Judd hinted that President Kennedy's blockade timing may have been political, he greeted the decision with relief. "At long last the U.S. is going to stop retreating," he declared. "The situation is not worse than it has been. In fact, if anything it is less dangerous. As in the past, firmness and strength in support of our principle, our commitments and our security offer the best, perhaps the only hope of peace and freedom in the world...
...blandest sort of condemnation of Castro's dictatorship. But this time, faced by the tangible menace of Russian missiles, the U.S. decided to act in its own self-defense, and then to ask for hemispheric approval. Latin America's response was a general sigh of relief and a willingness to follow U.S. leadership...
...guide to viscosity, Drs. Burch and DePasquale took readings with a hematocrit - an instrument that measures the concentration of red cells in a centrifuged blood sample. The normal range is 40% to 50%. Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along with an alarming feeling of suffocation. After the doctors bled them, removing about one-third of a pint of blood, the hematocrit level dropped into the normal range...
Incidental support for the doctors' theory came from a woman who had had frequent angina attacks, but got complete relief after she suffered an internal hemorrhage which dropped her hematocrit reading to 26%. She asked spontaneously: "Was that bleeding good for me?'' Drs. Burch and DePasquale think it was. Also, they argue, the relative freedom from angina and coronary disease enjoyed by women of menstruating age probably reflects the fact that their hematocrits read around 40%. After the menopause, women's hematocrits go up; so does their susceptibility to coronary disease and angina...