Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the main enemy defenses. It was late jumping off only because the Marine division it was relieving had lost about 500 yards during the night, which the 27th had to regain. Finally, the Army pointed out that an all-Army board of inquiry had declared Smith's relief "not justified," and had found that Marine Smith had not known what was going...
Economics Lesson. In Manhattan, when David Feldman was asked by the court how he had managed to save $6,410 in seven years while working as a bootblack, he explained: "I was on relief...
Inside the city's 40-ft.-thick walls, civilians clustered at the doors of tight-packed rows of shops. The bandaged heads of soldiers stood out in sharp relief among the crowds. Every few hundred yards our car passed soldiers hobbling on crutches or canes. Most of Taiyuan's factories are still working-the arsenal, largest below the Great Wall, at full capacity; the cotton mills, machine-tool works, cigarette factories and soda works at reduced output for lack of raw materials. The shops were filled with all kinds of goods-except food...
...left to catch our plane back to Peiping, the old man still sat at his desk fingering the poison vials. Above his head bas-relief characters in gold on a red background spelled out Yen's maxim: "I can be patient...
...member of the class of 1916, she also received her doctor's degree from Radcliffe. Graduate study included a year studying international law at Yale University and a year at the University of Brussels as a fellow of the Commission for Relief in Belgium...