Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belated Sweep. Temperatures climbed -Manhattan experienced a record 64° -as the bowl of stagnant air roofed the region. A scattering of New York hospitals reported an increase in lung-ailment complaints. Finally, with weather forecasts indicating no relief, officials called a first-stage smog alert* in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut...
...doubters -- concerned with the substance of the report rather than the emotional relief it provided -- persisted. Articles and books challenging the Commission's findings sprang up everywhere. A few of them, notably Edward Jay Epstein's Inquest and Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, raised serious doubts about not only the facts of the assassination, but also the procedures and pressures under which the Commission operated...
...Raynaud's victim who has long given up hope of getting any substantial relief, even those modest claims amount to hopeful talk...
...point of the hierarchy's statement on contraception was its charge that "Government activities increasingly seek aggressively to persuade and even coerce the underprivileged to practice birth control" as a condition of gaining relief benefits. This, the bishops charged, was an infringement upon "the freedom of spouses to determine the size of their families"-an argument, ironically, that the Planned Parenthood association has always used to defend contraception. The accusation of coercion astounded and outraged officers of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, who insisted that U.S. poverty programs give birth-control advice and assistance only to those...
...Vichy officers who are the Enemy and not much more. Ken Tigar and James Woods play two thankless stereo-types, and Dan Chumley plays an officer who has no dramatic or thematic meaning at all. Babe is uncertain what to do with them. They end up serving as comic relief, buttoning their vests to look presentable when a prisoner comes in to be tortured, or else being so evil as to be laughable...