Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true Ruthian fashion, Peters swatted a 300-foot three-run double, sending Northeastern in search of relief...
...five companies for himself, which Reno thought Custer would use to support him if he ran into heavy opposition. Reno's force of 112 officers and men had barely forded the Little Big Horn River when at least 500 Indians hit the front line and left flank. No relief force was in sight, and Reno ordered his men to dismount and fight on foot. Against odds as high as 10 to 1, Reno's men managed to advance to the first tepees of the camp before the Indians started to cut off their lines of retreat...
Eight on the Lam offers Bob Hope the ultimate insult: it assumes that he needs comic relief. As a meekling bank teller, Bob finds himself unjustly accused of rifling the tills and takes to the hills with his seven momless moppets and their inevitable mongrel. A fair enough premise for a one-man vehicle, but Hope is almost lost in a cast of characters that includes a slopstick baby sitter (Phyllis Diller) and her detective boy friend (Jonathan Winters), mouthing a script that contains relentless japes about little boys' bladders and big girls' figures...
Senior left-hander Jim McCandlish required ninth-inning relief help from sophomore Ray Peters to pick up the win. The rain-interrupted contest was marked by Harvard's ten-hit attack and sloppy play by both teams...
Senior southpaw Jim McCandlish held Dartmouth scoreless the rest of the way, giving up just two hits in a strong relief showing...