Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Joe Louis was having second thoughts. After he beat Jersey Joe Walcott in a slow-moving travesty last June, the aging (34) champ announced-to the relief of his fans and his mother-that he had fought his last fight. Now his agent, Sol Strauss, of the 20th Century Sporting Club, announced that Joe would defend his title for the 26th time next June -if the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles bout "comes through good." Said Joe's mother: "I feel awful...
...Miss Spencer implies, can fully extricate himself from the evil of the heart which winds through the lives of generations; no man can remove the burden of his ancestors from his back. Only a frank recognition of one's involvement in evil can bring any sort of relief from it or triumph over...
These were signs that Europe was getting off relief, and getting to the point where the U.S. could demand considerable selfhelp. ECA aid was coming into a second stage, where immediate food and fuel supplies could be replaced by the machinery and equipment to produce a permanent recovery...
Deliberately Dull? Journalist Ivor Brown thinks there is something to be said for the "odd appetite for knowledge in our times, an appetite which radio [through quiz shows] stimulates and feeds." With relief and some surprise he notes that radio, "instead of flattening out all our accents and idioms, and reducing the rich variety of our national speech . . . has actually popularized diversity." Even "American and Canadian voices seem to have especial powers of coaxing one to listen and to like what one hears...
...schools had one common complaint: too many students. In many a U.S. city and town, schools would operate in two shifts. Youngsters would be going to school in cafeterias, churches, and prefabs -and no immediate relief in sight. Said a Detroit school official: "It will be tough through...