Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warning that Arnheiter's relief at the hands of junior officers would erode authority throughout the service, Alexander brought his complaint directly to Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. "Mr. Secretary," the four-striper argued in his statement, "what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the United States Navy...
...began. Eight of its 16 line officers had been killed, the other eight wounded. Only two of its three company commanders were alive. Only one medic had survived to treat the wounded, who lay bleeding and covered with grime on all sides, moaning for lack of morphine. Rescue and relief helicopters tried to reach the battalion, but were driven off by enemy rocket and machine-gun fire; twelve helicopters went down in the five days of fighting...
...work load, it was expanded last year from nine to thirteen judges. This week the final vacancy will be filled when Claude Feemster Clayton, 58, takes the path of office. When news of his nomination came down, waiting lawyers on both sides of the integration fence breathed sighs of relief. Mississippi-born and -bred, Clayton is segregationist by heritage and inclination, but as a federal district judge, he slowly-and no doubt painfully-put aside the prejudices of a lifetime...
Returning to Harvard after a brief service in the diplomatic corps, he taught history until his death in 1928. During the war years, he went on official missions to Archangel and Vienna, served with the Peace Conference at Versailles, and with the Hoover famine-relief expedition in Russia...
...night last week reached weary agreement on a new contract-less than four hours before the strike deadline. Though Chrysler was hardly happy with the generous settlement it had been forced to accept, Company Negotiators John D. Leary and William E. O'Brien greeted the accord with relief. The smallest of the Big Three automakers has been enjoying a sales spurt fueled partly by the strike at Ford. Last month was Chrysler's best October ever-and only by averting a strike could it hope to keep its momentum...