Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts that their states be designated "disaster areas" requiring emergency federal aid, thus offered little hope to New Jersey and Maryland farmers who are also suffering a crop-searing dry spell. The New England drought situation, said the White House, is "distressing," but "considerable" relief is available under regular agricultural programs...
...current contest between ideologies for the minds of men has done us, too, a signal, if unexpected, service. It has cast in sharp relief what we have and support, against the backdrop of the terrible tyranny of totalitarian governments and their ruthless domination over the lives of human beings. In defending the ways of a free people we have been forced to compare our systems, so that all who are able to learn may make a choice...
...massive doses of reassurance and emotional support to the troubled women they treat. Thrice-married Obstetrician Javert, father of two, prescribes other comforts in moderation-wine (in small doses as a sedative), singing and dancing, even tennis (preferably mixed doubles with husband as partner). And, to the relief of women who have spent as much as four or five months on their backs only to lose their babies anyway, he firmly opposes (except in the rarest of cases) one of the most onerous of all prescriptions: bed rest...
...dismissal of the ten other charges facing Schrunk and Crosby last week, the Oregonian countered with an editorial criticizing the "weakness of the prosecution." Both papery nonetheless gave the trials top news play. And if Oregonians were tiring of this hit-and-myth exchange, there was little prospect of relief. To be tried this fall are 114 indictments against 41 individuals (including Schrunk and Crosby), plus $1,600,000 in libel suits that Crosby has filed against the Oregonian...
...carefully prepared speech Robert A. Bicks, a top member of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, told the American Bar Association that the Government would take a long, hard look before trying to upset other longstanding affiliations. Said Bicks: "At least in terms of the feasibility of effective relief in cases involving long-consummated acquisitions, the G.M.-Du Pont ruling may be more the exception than the rule...