Word: reliefer
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...after the attack, I spoke to over two dozen young soldiers from throughout the Brigade. Without a single exception, they all expressed genuine relief at learning that the Brigade Commander, Colonel Hodges, had returned from the hospital. Hardly the reaction of soldiers who had taken a dislike to their commander...
...when her father slams her into a wall in a demented rage. Her performance is an astonishing one, honest and free of wallowing, drenched in remembered pain but at a calm remove from it. When her father's end finally comes, Miller is brave enough to face her relief. "Guilty as I felt, terrified as I was, shamed as I felt for feeling it, I was glad...
...Such news is an enormous relief for doctors around the world. But experts are warning against complacency, particularly when the extent to which SARS has already spread remains a mystery. Kitty Fung, a microbiologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says it's currently impossible to say for certain if efforts to contain the disease within the territory's Prince of Wales Hospital, where the bulk of the SARS victims are being cared for, have been successful. That's despite the fact that much of the huge hospital has been shut down. Stretches of the hospital's normally bustling...
...requires an enormous commitment. But after its failure in Afghanistan, we doubt the Bush administration’s will to follow through. Before war began in Afghanistan, the President’s public goals were to dismantle the Taliban government, destroy terrorist training facilities and aid in the humanitarian relief and rebuilding necessary to improve the quality of life of the Afghan people. Little more than a year later, however, funding for Afghanistan’s restoration is conspicuously absent from the Bush budget. This should give pause to those who consider war in Iraq a humanitarian effort...
...broader international support been assembled, military action in Iraq may have been more palatable. The goal of disarming a dangerous tyrant is a worthy one, and bringing relief to a nation crippled by totalitarianism is a noble objective. But given the lonesome international situation in which Bush now stands, we cannot support the President’s plan...