Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balloons & Barricades. The first relief expedition that set out by rail from Tientsin bogged down when the Boxers burned the bridges. A second was mounted with agonizing slowness and comic-opera disorganization. The 20.ooo-man force was a command nightmare, as seven nations (Japan. Britain, Russia. France, Italy, Austria, the U.S.) raced for glory. Nevertheless, the melee helped train such young military men as U.S. Marine Lieut. Smedley Butler, and British Naval Officers David Beatty and John Jellicoe. successively commanders in chief of the British fleet in World...
Most remarkable record in this season's book belongs to little (5 ft. 8 in., 155 Ibs.) Elroy Face, relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates (TIME, June 22). Last week Face beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6, to make his record a startling 17-0, and to extend his winning streak over two seasons to 22 games. Face has not lost since May 30, 1958, has often been helped by the happy knack of the Pirates of winning extra-inning games (18 out of 20 this year). Baseball's leaders, with four weeks to play...
...Blood. In Tackson, Miss., after his home was invaded by a swarm of bees and his family severely stung by bees while on a picnic, Alon Bee mused: "We'd change our name if we thought it would give us any relief...
...silent sluggers may send a ball soaring toward the Capitol dome. Even lowly Kansas City won eleven in a row for the season's longest string, had the fans overflowing Municipal Stadium (capacity: 30,611) and sitting on the grass in leftfield. And when a slight, cold-eyed relief pitcher named Elroy Face (15-0) begins to throw his forkball, Pittsburgh can beat the world...
...with the recorded mating call of a bull ape. After that, for 14 hours, Florida radio listeners within range of Jacksonville's WAPE-are assaulted by the monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll. A three-minute trickle of news every two hours is the only relief; every station break is loud with the lovesick ape. The continuous uproar is so hypnotic that few who hear it seem anxious-or able-to turn it off. Last week one-year-old WAPE finished its fourth month as the top-rated station in a highly competitive nine-station town...