Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle East cauldron was still bubbling last week, but to the relief of practically everybody, it failed for the time being to come to a boil...
...friendly brown bear, is "the Rock of Gibraltar" (Joan Rivers), or "my security blanket" (Newhart). Once, when Newhart and Guest Bobby Morse were lulling the audience to sleep with reminiscences, McMahon piped: "Gee, have you two ever thought about putting a book of these stories out?" Says Newhart: "The relief was marvelous. Bobby and I would have kept going all night if Ed hadn't saved us." Jerry Lewis tried to break Ed up during commercials and even kept it up when Ed was trying to say something laudatory about him. "You're such a great mimic," said...
...Post's frenzy of rejuvenation was really a dance of death, and those close to the magazine knew it. The end, said Editor-at-Large Harold Martin, was "like being told that a relative had died after a long incurable illness. There is a certain feeling of relief that there won't be any more suffering...
...sense that they observe no outward effect from it. Presumably because methadone works on the same brain centers as heroin, it induces a cross-tolerance to heroin and blocks its effects. A methadone patient can be challenged with a massive mainline fix and show no response-except enormous relief at the knowledge that now he can take it or leave it alone. He can watch his old friends shooting horse and feel no desire to join them...
...after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...