Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge industrialist Charles Luckman has gone to Washington: he is straining to win national support for President Truman's Citizens Food Committee. The stakes are the lives of distressed millions in Europe and the relief of threatening inflationary pressures at home. Yet colossal as the need looms, the University community has not entered the Administration's endeavor. Measures capable of institution here may seem small in proportion to the enormity of the issue, but they cry for adoption; and "meatless Tuesdays and poultryless Thursdays" spell only a start...
...Instead of the great leadership demanded to guide the world to peace, it has legislated in prejudice, hysteria and fear. It has failed to meet the urgent needs of relief and rehabilitation overseas...
...silk-stocking element was frankly appalled by him-a noisy little man whose feet dangled when he sat on a chair, who needed a shave, who walked in picket lines and smelled of garlic. When he was finally beaten for Congress in 1932, the party sighed with relief. It seemed that his career was over...
...betting on the horses, Bucky piped up with, "So what ... I'd bet too, if I thought a tip was any good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page, a relief pitcher with an inferiority complex who did more than any player-aside from DiMaggio-to bring the Yankees their 14th pennant in 27 years...
...between NSA and the year-old International Union of Students. From its headquarters in Prague, the I.U.S. had steered a course far closer to the mores and ideologies of students in Soviet-oriented countries than to those of U.S. campuses. But the I.U.S. boasts a constructive service program embracing relief and low-cost travel; only a tiny minority wanted to shy away completely from I.U.S. affiliation. What most delegates looked for--and evolved--was an affiliation scheme which would carry with it complete NSA independence from I.U.S. political activities...