Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founded by the Blessed Gerard in Jerusalem in the 11th century to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order has returned to a mission close to its original calling. The knights support a worldwide program of medical aid and refugee relief that extends to 42 countries. Of some 8,000 members, only 40 take the order's religious vows...
...majority of graduates undoubtedly received their degrees with the usual mixture of relief and pride, anticipating graduate work, careers-or the draft. But many of this year's college and university commencements were surrounded by a palpable atmosphere of tension. Conscious of their newfound power, students eyed their speakers with more than the usual contempt for cliché and platitude. Wary orators appeared to treat the graduates of '68 with respect rather than condescension, and pleaded, in effect, that they reason together as adults. What many of them wanted to reason about was the phenomenon of student unrest...
...Eugene O'Neill play is somewhat like a confession without hope of absolution. The sense of sin lies too deep to be expiated. Past guilts abort present action and remorse is denied relief. The characters reach out to one another for affection and frustratingly embrace only the perturbed, tormented shadows of themselves...
...Communist states and the leadership in Red parties that bid for power in coalition governments. This again pits established Communist leadership against the students. Far from encouraging the student-inspired struggle against "capitalistic society" in France, the Communists in France and in the Kremlin breathed a collective sigh of relief when Charles de Gaulle restored order in Paris...
...squirt grease into ecclesiastical machinery." Yet at the job of making churches run he had no peer. He served for six years as president of the Lutheran World Federation, which has 72 million members in 43 countries, and was also a founder-and lifetime president-of Lutheran World Relief, which last year sent $3,000,000 to aid victims of disaster and poverty around the world. In addition to governing his own denomination, he served for the last 14 years as chairman of the World Council of Churches' executive and central committees...