Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northeastern scored twice in the fourth, twice more in the eighth, and three times in the ninth when lefty John Knowles came in for relief work. In addition to ten hits for the afternoon, the Huskies picked up eight walks, six from Phelan and two from Knowles. HARVARD ab r h po a e Mariaschin, 2b 4 0 1 4 2 0 Swegan, ss 4 0 0 2 1 0 Petrillo, cf 4 0 0 2 0 0 Fitz, lb 4 0 1 5 0 0 Rodis, rf 3 0 2 3 1 0 Harford...
During the last week of April, actual shipment of relief supplies abroad had once again fallen miserably behind. The box score...
...Nazi sympathies to boot. But his record of intense loyalty to his Queen and adopted country during the war has made Prince Bernhard the most popular man in Holland today. In the last year of the war, he served as head of the Dutch resistance movement, later organized relief of stricken areas...
Bernhard, who pilots his own plane, recently toured Scandinavia with Juliana ("Lula" to him) to thank the ruling houses for the relief sent Holland. The Danes gave Bernhard and Juliana the prized Order of the Elephant. Grateful but rueful, Bernhard commented privately: "There are two kinds of decorations-those for valor and those for banqueting; I get all the eating decorations." Wilhelmina, who used to disapprove of Bernhard's prewar frivolity (he even drank cocktails on Sunday) now thinks so much of him that she lets him smoke in her dining room...
...felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island-and found themselves cut off. When, at last, relief came and Captain Hunt and his handful of men staggered back to the beach, they had withstood three terrible counterattacks and killed more than 500 Japs...