Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name meant Thanks Moon Angel) to the radio to assure the public-incorrectly-that nobody had been killed when the gendarmes fired into the crowd on the first day. Moon Angel was just as well known as Snow Red. She was a Taipeh lady doctor, locally famous for championing relief and rehabilitation for displaced prostitutes, who had beaten Snow Red for election as Formosa's woman delegate to the National Assembly in Nanking. Fellow Formosans did not like Moon Angel's radio speech, however. They dragged her furniture and belongings into the street and burned them...
...seats against 117 for the combined Opposition). It also seemed to indicate a brightened party future. The Liberals, after three by-election defeats in a row, now had won two straight (in Cartier and in Riche-lieu-Verchères last December). In Ottawa, Liberal masterminds sighed with relief...
Wassily F. Leontief, professor of Economics, and Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, will also be participating in the six week curriculum. Pete Seeger, who gave an American folk song recital in Emerson Hall last February 27 for the Food Relief Drive, has also agreed to present our national folk traditions to the seminar...
...time Senator Donnell's energy began to run down, Republican Whip Ken Wherry was pleading with Democrats not to encourage a new flood of oratory by undue questioning. But when Donnell finally subsided, with the unchallenged comment that it must be a "great relief to members of the Senate," the parliamentary dillydallying began. It was not until week's end that the Senate came to a vote...
...half-blind and often down on his luck, he expected "a lot of attention and help of all kinds from his friends." Now & then he would stalk unannounced into the Colums' apartment, sit down at the piano and begin to sing. "When anything hit him hard, Joyce had relief in singing, and all his songs were...