Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patched barrens. There seemed to be no logical explanation for the crash, The plane's flight from New York to Newfoundland had been without incident. There had been a delay at Harmon, but for purely routine reasons. Weather had shut it out of Gander Airport, where a relief crew waited, and CAB rules had kept the plane grounded for twelve hours while its pilots slept. An engine check, made during the delay, revealed that all its power plants were functioning perfectly...
...President is up against the same sort of thing he was last spring when our shipments of relief grain abroad fell way below what we had promised. He finally took Chester Bowles off our necks and told us to go out and get the grain. Sometimes we had to raise the price a little, but we got it. It was a rough operation, but it worked. Authority was concentrated-one branch of the Government was told to do the job without quibbling and without interference. Now we've got to wrap up responsibility for meat in one package...
...President Maurice Schumann, bolted from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee as the siren in the corridors shrilled to evacuate the press and public galleries. But, to the obvious relief of President Vincent Auriol, a small army of quickwitted ushers surrounded the menaced speaker and restored order by coaxing Abbas off toward the Communist benches, which greeted him with feeble applause...
With a deep sigh of relief...
Along a battered railway in North Shansi, where the year's last tasseled kaoliang still stands unreaped, the biggest, bloodiest battle in a year of China's civil war has just ended. A Government army, rolling to the relief of Tatung, effected a junction with a column from the long-besieged city...