Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year there were 22,000,000 hungry Russians whom the Soviet government did not have grain enough to keep alive. The American Relief Association came to the rescue, and fed many of the starving. This year the American Relief Administration estimates there will be 13,000,000 hungry mouths that Russia cannot feed...
...girls felt worthless and insecure. Though they paraded in mink coats and made a point of being seen riding in Cadillacs from expensive apartments in the best parts of town, they were forever afraid that the world was ready to laugh at them. To dull their anxiety they sought relief in drink (though none was technically an alcoholic); 15 used marijuana, and six took to heroin. Said one: "Being a call girl helped me overcome my inferiority complex. I used to feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want to pay me ... I guess...
...pros were anxious and depressed; no fewer than 15 had tried suicide, many of them several times; one succeeded on the sixth try. Of the six he analyzed, Dr. Greenwald could report proudly that five quit the racket (though that was not their aim in seeking therapy, but relief from anxiety and depression). Some got married, others went into legitimate businesses...
Press association teleprinters chattered last week with seemingly momentous news from Boston: "Discovery of a mold extract which seeks and destroys fresh blood clots in minutes ... can be used safely on the sickest patient . . . credited with furnishing quick relief for sufferers of heart attacks." Editors front-paged the claims, which had been announced by the Massachusetts Heart Association...
...Faced Beasts. To bring her thesis into focus, Dorothy Norman assembled photographs of more than 100 art objects -the Assyrian Gilgamesh strangling a lion in an 8th century B.C. bas-relief, an Egyptian sculpture of the god Horus with lion-hunting gear, Heracles struggling barehanded with the Nemean Lion, as shown on a 5th century B.C. Greek vase, the herdsman subduing the ox in the Zen Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years...