Word: reliefer
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...Boston College Eagles hat, shouted at the children to stop and gave them the thumbs down. Yet another young man slapped his face with both hands—over and over—in obvious pain and frustration. The Hungarian Horntails got a long ovation, seemingly as much in relief as in appreciation...
...place.. The ballpark’s beauty is truly appreciated through the eyes of a seven-year-old who dashes into the grandstands for the first time, absorbing the enormity of the left-field “Green Monster,” and obsessively staring at the anonymous relief pitcher playing catch in right field. Fenway Park awes with its present, regardless of the unjust proportion of Red Sox joys to sorrows...
...head, I had been expecting to have all the problems you read about--the heart problems, secondary cancers--all that stuff," says Dyer. But a recent evaluation at Sloan-Kettering indicated that Dyer so far shows no signs of the complications she had dreaded. "It was a huge relief," she says. So this Aug. 27, she will celebrate another year of being not only cancer-free but also healthy. Three years ago, to honor a decade of cancer liberation, Dyer went skydiving. "I just felt a sense of exhilaration, of really living life and not wasting moments by being afraid...
...there you have it: Illinois soldiers in Iraq are still 10 times more likely to be killed than teenagers in Chicago. Well, that's a relief - the same way it's a relief to discover that your brother's terminal illness is progressing more slowly than your father...
...toll from the temblor, which shook Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures, was nine as of Tuesday, with one person reportedly still missing. That's far less than a 2004 quake that struck the same area and killed more than 60 while leaving 16,000 homeless. But instead of feeling relief, the entire country has been rattled by TV images of black smoke billowing from Niigata's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, located just 9km (5.6 miles) from the epicenter in the Sea of Japan. The plant suffered a string of problems when the temblor struck. Tokyo Electric, the Kashiwazaki plant...