Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reds' last safe haven in South Viet Nam. Perhaps most disturbing of all to the enemy was the U.S. air war. During the week, the North Vietnamese lost nine supersonic MIG-21s, their most advanced fighter aircraft, as U.S. bombers continued to pound military targets. Seemingly desperate for relief from the devastating air offensive, Hanoi began emitting some subtle static aimed at convincing Washington that if only the U.S. would call off its planes, peace talks might-eventually-get under...
...Irish-dominated Democratic power. Son of artists, grandson of a German immigrant who prospered as an architect, Herter himself briefly studied art and architecture. He happened into diplomacy in 1916 upon hearing of an opening in the Berlin embassy. After the war, he worked for Herbert Hoover's Relief Administration in Europe and the Commerce Department in Washington before going back to Boston to write and lecture in support of internationalism. In 1930, he won his first election to the state legislature-he was never to lose in a total of 13 contests-and served in the lower house...
...back he went to overeating. He gained a pound a day for two months and retreated to the sanctuary of adiposity, where less was expected of him and he no longer felt inadequate. In other cases, said Dr. Kurland, drastic reducing has also led to depression rather than emotional relief. For many of the extremely obese, he suggested, their very weight is a source of emotional stability...
...relief of bankers and business men, the Federal Reserve Board last week moved to ease the money market and increase the supply of lendable funds. The board canceled the terms of its hotly debated letter to banks on Sept. 1, which had shut off the Federal Reserve's discount window as a source of money for any banker who hoped to increase an already high volume of commercial loans. "Credit conditions have changed," said last week's notice from the seven-man board of governors headed by William McChesney Martin...
...holiday greeting to his 110,000 employees, Industrialist Alfried Krupp could not resist a reference to West Germany's economic woes and a sober prophecy that 1967 "will not bring any relief." It was a message that all of his countrymen could ponder: after years of heady prosperity, West Germany seems to be caught in a swinging door between present inflation and potential recession...