Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peaceful alcoholic stupor. Food and board are cheap: 50? a night for a flop; two fried eggs, coffee, toast, mush and potatoes for a quarter. Money is adequate: handouts in these generous times are fat; pharmaceutical companies buy blood for $5 a pint if the donor appears sober; relief checks and unemployment compensation are punctual. If all else fails, a day's dishwashing will net $8, and $8 is enough for a week's luxurious living in a civilization where showers are free, haircuts and shaves cost nothing at a barber college, the missions hand out meals...
...voices are raised more often or more indignantly over the plight of Arab refugees in the Middle East than those of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Last week, during a special refugee relief fund-raising conference at the U.N., 22 nations agreed to contribute some $28 million to UNRWA, on whom 900,000 Arab refugees are almost totally dependent for food, clothing and shelter. The U.S. pledged $21.8 million, Britain $5.8 million. Among smaller contributors was Yugoslavia, which pledged $40,000. Total contributions from the Soviet Union and its satellites: zero...
...calm, small, square-cut sculptor named Costantino Nivola has finished what may be the biggest single bas-relief in modern history. Darius the Mede and Nebuchadnezzar ordered bigger ones, but the ancient rulers never saw anything remotely like Nivola...
Johnson started the first game, but lost a heartbreaker. He started the fourth, and lost that one, too. Called in as a relief pitcher in the final game, Johnson went into the late innings with the score tied and two out. A Senator hit a grounder to Lindstrom, the Giant third baseman. Just as he was about to grab it, however, it hit a pebble and bounced over his head, while the winning runs scored...
Larsen, winner of the third game of this series in relief, will be the Yankee starter in tomorrow's seventh game at the stadium...