Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic box, Russian Minister Ilya Chernichev's face registered surprise, then realization, then smiling relief...
...inexperienced. The star of the team is 5 ft.11 in. Center Jack Allen, a superb dribbler and a deadly shot from just beyond the foul circle. In most of the other positions, Keaney keeps shuttling substitutes in & out with instructions to run until they tire, then signal for relief. By this simple method, which has proved effective in Keaney's 27 years at R.I. State, his fast little men recently trampled powerful St. John's in New York's Madison Square Garden...
...bread (in the spring) for meat (in the fall) and for sugar (at year's end). In China's Hunan Province she sought any food at all (including a whitish clay called, pathetically, "Goddess of Mercy"), but she did not find enough, and thousands starved while relief distribution was immobilized by red tape. In Germany she sought cigarets; in Russia, shoes; in Britain, sheets. She learned (what she had long suspected) that privation marched with the victorious armies as well as with the vanquished. Her frustration was sharply symbolized by one elderly woman of Worcester, Mass., who stood...
External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent promised Quebec 73 seats (instead of the present 65) in the House, under the new redistribution plan. Finance Minister Doug Abbott, who speaks French like, a Frenchman, promised taxation relief. Transport Minister Lionel Chevrier promised that Quebeckers would get an "equitable" share of Dominion Government contracts. Solicitor General Joseph Jean did no promising but plenty of praising...
...take to its cloistered tyrannies and traditions. Some faculty members soon found Headmaster Nash's dynamic forthrightness hard to take and some of his proposed changes even harder; most such masters have now left the school. Though St. Paul's and its headmaster could part with some relief, the Bishop-elect took his time about making up his mind...