Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temperatures fell to 49° below zero. Frozen German corpses piled up like logs, many still clad in light uniforms. German rations ran out, and proud troops began to eat the flesh of horses, cats and rats. Hermann Goring's airlift brought only a fraction of the promised relief. The city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that his generals stand firm, refusing to allow them to try to break out of the trap and save part of their army. Against his orders, Field Marshal...
...cases of gout, they show that it is not a simple, one-cause, one-effect disorder. At least two and probably more inherited enzyme defects are involved, and researchers are now trying to track these down. For the foreseeable future, gout victims will have to be satisfied with what relief they can get from drugs and watching their diet. But they may also solace themselves with an occasional glass of port wine or a highball...
Since 1964, Disaster Relief Coordinator Steve Tripp has coped coolly and shrewdly with 213 calamities, ranging from Hurricane Beulah's inundation of northeastern Mexico to the petrolific breakup of the tanker Torrey Canyon off Britain last summer. Most of his problems are caused by floods, though pestilence, famine, war and earthquake rank almost as high. Last year Tripp and his three-man staff (working from a minuscule suite near the White House) funneled $41.5 million worth of supplies and services to 39 countries-at a rate of nearly one disaster per week. Duplication is frequent, since some poor countries...
Tripp's office was created only four years ago, after the Yugoslav earthquake at Skoplje, which killed 1,011 and revealed an arteriosclerotic lack of coordination in American relief response. Nonetheless, Mr. Catastrophe follows an honorable tradition...
...food and medicine, much of it contributed by the U.S. and Britain. Then, as if nature had not already done its worst, violent rains and winds lashed the quake area at week's end, turning the refugee encampments into quagmires and halting for a time the delivery of relief supplies...