Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectators exhaled a mass sigh of relief as the couple stumbled off deliriously, hand in hand. Eleven prisoners, muttering to each other, pushed on down the street past the muttering crowd: "Unpredictable Russians . . . incredible ... I can't understand. ... I don't understand the Russians...
...troops entered-after the street-sniping ended-Yang came down. Aiya! His shop was intact, but Government soldiers had taken his bedding and wares of toothpaste and Yenan brand cigarets. For two days he had been impressed as a water carrier. Now he was free again with a Government relief stock of cigarets and flour for ta bing (cakes...
Like cullers grading a catch of salt cod for market, Newfoundland's National Convention sifted forms of government. The 45 members (TIME, July 8) drew their $10 to $15 a day apiece, and took their time. For six months they bickered and bantered on everything from relief to roads, from fish to politics. Then last month the Convention decided that it needed more information. It picked a six-man delegation to talk over with the British Government 1) a return to full self-governing dominion status, or 2) a retention of the present seven-man Commission of Government. Then...
That is about all there is to the story. Comic relief and pathos are added by an acidulous grandma, a neurasthenic maiden aunt and an old wartime friend of Frank's (Sterling Holloway). But the real meat of This Happy Breed is in the many plotless little human studies which Coward writes with such relish-Frank's advice to his bridegroom son, delivered in the privacy of the bathroom, just before the wedding; snappish, jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news...
Beyond the Northeastern game are contests on Friday and Saturday with Connecticut and Holy Cross. Since the Crusaders figure to be the toughest club of the three, Samborski is saving his see, Red Connolly, for the Worcester clash. Brendon Reilly, a veteran right-hander who appeared in relief against Navy during spring vacation, will be today's starter...