Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 1,300,000, mostly civilians, had died of hunger, cold and shell fire in the city. When in 1942 a relief road was opened to Leningrad across frozen Lake Ladoga, Zhdanov, iron-willed, withheld from the people the food it carried, ordered it stocked in the reserve. In Soviet propaganda the story of Leningrad has been overshadowed by Stalingrad, because the latter marked the beginning of the Red Army offensive. But if the Kremlin should decide (in order to underline Russia's strength against an enemy it can't reach) to stress the U.S.S.R.'s purely...
...burning pains. In "major" causalgia, the patient is completely disabled, screams with pain at a touch or a sudden noise. In "minor" causalgia, the patient, months after a minor cut or infection has healed, may suffer severe pains without visible cause. Nerve block with novocaine or alcohol gives quick relief...
College sport fans in hibernation since the Yale football game get athletic relief tonight, when the Varsity basketball team opens its season against M.L.T. in the Indoor Athletic Building at 8:30 o'clock. The Crimson Yardlings face the Tech Junior Varsity in a preliminary affair which starts at 7 o'clock...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...
...country's economy.* The continuing maritime strike on the West Coast (in the process of settlement this week) helped his cause. The islands, long a tourist paradise, depend for sustenance on seaborne traffic. Since the shutdown of Pacific shipping seven weeks ago, only three relief ships, sent by the Department of Interior, have reached Hawaii with vitally needed food...