Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortchanged," says Albert. "Then we search for a plaintiff to represent." The organization has been responsible, in whole or in part, for the spate of recent Supreme Court rulings that have broadened the rights of welfare recipients. In 1966 the high court upheld a decision prohibiting Georgia from denying relief benefits to mothers whom the state deemed able to work. Other cases included a landmark decision against Alabama, which had sought to end payments to mothers either widowed or estranged from their husbands if the women were "cohabiting" with other men. To Alabama authorities, the men were "substitute fathers." Only...
...further. Their approach to mental illness seems to contradict much of prevailing psychiatric theory. Crisis intervention assumes, for instance, that the deeply disturbed patient can be snatched at the last minute from committable insanity-and that the last moment may be the best time to try. It argues that relief of the immediate symptoms of profound emotional stress is far more urgent than any investigation into their cause. In effect, it proposes to substitute emotional Band-Aids for prolonged therapy, if Band-Aids will tide the patient over an unendurable crisis in his life...
...impossible situation' and 'I need help' in several ways-by saying it when no one is really listening, by attempting suicide, by beating up someone or by going to the hospital. They know something is wrong. And it is an enormous relief when we agree that something is wrong and when we listen...
Dorwart obviously was upset by the call as he then gave up a hit and walked three batters for a total of five runs. Sophomore Nickens began his relief job by walking in a run, but after that he settled down to his superb two-hit performance...
Down 7-0 after two innings, Harvard's sophomore-studied line-up produced seven runs, while left-hander J. C. Nickens came on the relief to hurl a two-hit shut out. Then with out in the ninth, the bubble burst...