Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's II Progresso Italo-Ameri-cano had run a full-page ad last January calling for a committee of 100,000 to get at least a million letters off to Italy posthaste. Points to be made to relatives in the old country: food and relief has been coming from the U.S., not Yugoslavia or other Soviet satellites; Italy's hope for peace depends...
Oscared in all her 21 years in the movies: "At long last." The audience echoed her with a multitudinous sigh of relief, and shortly went home...
More than a third of the babies who roam the Clinic's spacious quarters, which formerly housed a Russian War Relief center and a various string of restaurants, are less than a year old. Two 13-year olds used to be on the list but a lack of proper facilities has since forced the Clinic to set a 12-year age limit...
Overseas seats of learning "adopted' by the Committee for this third world student relief drive are the universities in Athens, Peiping, Delhi, and Heidelberg. The school at East Punjab, India, was included, Robbins said, because W.S.S.F. officials felt that greatest support could be registered here for this slightly less dramatic but no less needy area...
...pattern of his life cooled into finality before he was 25. Says Author Weber: "Having been unable to adjudicate between the claims of poetry and the need to earn his living, Crane found that he could obtain relief by evading the issue. He ... trusted in the natural benevolence of circumstances. . . . The suffering . . . was made tolerable only by his optimism and acceptance of evil as a necessary component of reality. The devices which he had originally employed as tools for innocent purposes-alcohol to stimulate his poetic gift, sexual indulgence for the love which it engendered-became narcotics, less adequate...