Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro youth, threw fire bombs from buildings in Waukegan, Ill., a blue-collar community near Chicago, setting cars ablaze and burning seven people, two of them critically. After police quelled the riots, Mayor Robert Sabonjian, who has steadfastly rebuffed overtures to improve race relations, moved to cut off relief and unemployment benefits to the rioters, ordered the city housing authority to evict some of those arrested. The city also set bond so high that few could be released from jail. Sabonjian called the rioters "animals, junkheads, winos and scum," said that their actions were "not the acts of human beings...
People who suffer from the sudden, sharp chest pains called angina pectoris usually carry nitroglycerin pills or amyl nitrite for quick, dramatic relief. The frightening spasms commonly occur in long-standing heart disease patients when they exercise or are exposed to cold weather. But what is the victim to do if the pain strikes and he has forgotten his pill? A report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests an effective emergency treatment: when an attack takes place, hold the nose, close the mouth and blow...
...fight, baby,/ But Lord, Lord, you think you're right"). But social comment is only a faint note in the sound of Chicago blues. For the most part, the bluesmen rework the traditional twelve-bar songs that have three-line verses dealing with common troubles, travels, cars, relief checks, jails, loneliness or joys. Above all, they sing about the vagaries of physical love, since, as Junior Wells puts it, "a woman is the biggest damn trouble you could ever have...
...support from the church, is designed to keep intelligent, educated Mormons who might otherwise fall by the wayside within the community of Saints. Its tone contrasts sharply with that of the vast array of official Mormon publications-ranging from Salt Lake City's daily Deseret News to the Relief Society Magazine, a women's monthly-which read like house organs and propagate what one Dialogue editor calls "the myth of the unruffled Mormon," impervious to doubt. In reality, argues Dialogue's book-review editor, Richard L. Bushman, a history professor at Brigham Young University, plenty of young...
...Jewish orphanage. She was also one among thousands of Jewish children who survived the Nazis only to find themselves displaced and placeless in the wreckage of postwar Europe. They seemed anything but superfluous to British Novelist Charity Blackstock (Mr. Christopoulos, Monkey on a Chain). Working through a British Jewish relief agency, Mrs. Blackstock brought about 500 Jewish adolescents to England, installed them for brief holidays in Jewish homes. She enjoyed her work so much that when agency funds ran out after five years, she went to France to work in Jewish orphanages there...