Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first special Oscar (for good works), had already been honored with citations from the Greek War Relief Committee, Bundles for Britain, the Canadian Victory Loan Drive and President Roosevelt. During World War II, he traveled more than a million miles to deliver his smiles...
...plain but brave Bolivian soldier, who has just crushed the Castro-Communist intruders, giving thus a breath of relief to the Americas. J. L. COóRDOVA ELENA SALINAS A. J. CALDERON La Paz, Bolivia...
...still able to fight, there was no food. Worse, for the wounded fighting for their lives, there was no water. Next morning a relief battalion set out from Fire Support Base 16, less than two miles away. So dense is Dak To's bamboo jungle that it took more than ten hours to reach the embattled men. When the rescuers finally arrived, the survivors mobbed them for food and water. But the incoming battalion had taken only enough supplies for itself, and had consumed them all on the long march...
Perfect Satyr. Erected between 50 and 69 A.D., the monument was discovered by the Gens brothers in 1965 beneath the shop basement. Exposing a large limestone block, they dug around it and discovered the perfectly preserved figure of a satyr chiseled in bas-relief on one side. Beneath the first block, they found a second, also carved. They called officials of Cologne's Roman-Germanic museum, who immediately bought the stones for $2,000 but explained that archaeological teams could not be spared at the moment to in vestigate the site. In the meantime, the museum officials, who have...
...backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued to the point of regretfulness during the love scene between Siegmund and his twin sister Sieglinde in Act I, later blared and crackled as Wotan and Fricka haggled about the implications of incest, thus highlighting Wagner...