Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deputy Will Do. Mme. Xa's brand of modest Machiavellianism has already made her one of the more powerful Deputies in the Assembly. She is speaker of the credentials committee and a member of the one on flood relief-the only two committees formed so far. When she demanded that all pregnant women be released from prison, the measure passed easily. When, in a burst of patriotic pontificating common to assemblies the world over, a draft resolution supporting the Vietnamese army at home and abroad was proposed, Mme. Xa raised her delicate eyebrows. '"Abroad?" she asked...
...civil rights movement might become more active. "In moving around the country, I've heard that people have been finding it more profitable not to work than to work," he said. "You can't get people to work for $125 a week because they're getting $87 in relief and, after taxes, they'd do better staying there. There ought to be programs which would give them an incentive to work...
Victory & Vorster. Since their return to Africa, Seretse and Ruth have proved to be more than mere celebrities: Sere tse's moderate, anti-Communist Dorn-krag party won last year's elections handily over the rabid black-nationalist party of Phillip Matante; Ruth's relief work in the kraals and mud huts of the natives has won her the affectionate title of Mwa Rona (Our Mother...
...everyone's relief, young Mark Glidden turned out to be a normal, robust (7 lbs. 5 oz.) baby. Since he is only the second on record born to a mother taking "immunosuppressive" drugs, doctors are carefully refraining from drawing any fast conclusions. Still, Dr. Kaufman is impressed-not only by Mark's health but by the fact that Bonnie's kidney seemed to perform better than ever while she was pregnant. It is widely assumed that a pregnant woman somehow suppresses some of her rejection mechanism so that she can carry the partially foreign fetus...
...sentence them to ten years. But a wave of public outrage had overwhelmed the White House on Massie's behalf. Hawaii's Territorial Governor Lawrence Judd got his orders from President Hoover himself: Find some way to keep the four out of prison. With considerable relief, Judd commuted the sentences to one hour...