Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painful distortion, Pablo Picasso. Picasso's recent "Woman in Green"-a pink snout snoring over a swamp of green swirls-had successfully enraged London last year and was now appearing for the first time in the U.S. Georges Braque's supporting contribution was a painted plaster bas-relief of woman as lo, a harried heifer...
...Washington, it looked as if Europe had decided to go on U.S. relief forever. The State Department well knew that it would have a hard time getting even a $15 billion aid program through Congress -even with the most ironclad provisos that the money would be used for self-rehabilitation...
...Plans. For the homeless, crippled refugees, no one had anticipated relief measures. In New Delhi a penniless Hindu woman from the West Punjab clutched her two children, told of her husband's murder by Moslems. "Don't ask her about her plans," cautioned a welfare official, "she hasn't any and neither have...
Whether or not Bankhead would bolster the Dodgers' sagging pitching staff might take some time to tell. In his 3⅓inning relief stint against the Pirates-on a day when Kiner & Co. really had their hitting shoes on-he gave up 10 hits and 8 runs. He couldn't ever do much worse than that, and he looked as though he could do quite a lot better. His batting, on the other hand, could not be improved on: his first time at bat, Bankhead fouled off several pitches, then banged a home run into the left field...
...familiar voice, Vaccaro rolled over, saw Harry Truman grinning from ear to ear. He stared at the awful needle, suddenly realized he was the victim of a practical joke. Then he sighed with relief and got off the quote of the week: "Mr. President, I do not usually greet Presidents of the United States from this position...