Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's Scots sighed with relief. A real Scots night without haggis would be unthinkable, haggis without meat impossible. Now they could boil a sheep's stomach bag (with the windpipe hanging over the side of the pot to carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...
...considerably underestimated their exhaustion and willingness to cry uncle. One may legitimately doubt the sincere willingness of the national leadership to embrace the permanent role of a peaceable fourth-rate power, but here in the midst of it one can scarcely doubt the sincerity of the people's relief over the war's end and their willingness to obey the government in submission to the occupation...
...Republican side, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg joined in: "I think there should be a ... degree of relief in personal taxes, not only in the confiscatory brackets at the top, but also in the mass brackets at the bottom...
Partly to make more supplies avail able for relief, but also because the meat-hungry U.S. had griped so long about Canadian abundance, Canada reimposed meat rationing* this week...
...some 12,000 fugitives from Franco settled in Mexico, most of them in and around Mexico City. They found the language and customs congenial, relief for those who needed it efficient and openhanded. The Cardenas Government offered immediate free citizenship for the asking, set up a Casa de España through which scholars and other refugee intellectuals could carry...