Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family, which had Jordanian nationality, qualified nonetheless for expense-free passage to the U.S. under a limited refugee-admission program sponsored by the United Nations Relief and Welfare Agency and the World Council of Churches. Soon after reaching the U.S. in January 1957, the parents separated. The father returned to Jordan, settled alone in his ancestral village of Taiyiba and became prosperous enough from his olive groves to revisit the U.S. twice. His five sons and their mother Mary all live now in the Los Angeles area...
...suspected killer was less a product of U.S. society than of the festering hatred of the Middle East. "After we had all written about violence and cankers in American society," wrote London Daily Mirror Columnist George Gale somewhat soberly, "it came in a way as a sort of relief and undoubted surprise that Robert Kennedy was allegedly killed by an Arab for perfectly understandable political reasons." However, that fact, he predicted, will "become generally obscured," and indeed it was obscure enough in the continuing world comment...
...particularly festive response. Some are down at the mouth because of the draft; other are simply t a loss as to what to do with themselves. One would imagine that after fourarduous years of travaille the end of the academic moratorium would be greeted with a sense of rejoicing, relief, and eve liberation. Instead, I have become increasingly impressed with a muggy mood of despondence which hovers over this year's celebrations like a lazy mosquito: annoying, menacing, frustration, and depressing...
...five tumultuous days, France passed from the brink of civil war to an almost universal feeling of relief that the worst of the crisis seemed to be over. Reviled by France's students and rejected by its workers, De Gaulle saw his government crumbling beneath him, Paris hostile and ready to explode, and opposition politicians closing ranks to cut him down. A lesser man might have quit; so serious was the situation that De Gaulle in fact considered it. But like his countrymen at the Marne 54 years before, he decided to stand his ground and fight. France responded...
...Lahti's patients went to his office after a few days for removal of stitches, but there were only two hospital readmissions for minor complications. "There has been," says Dr. Lahti with evident relief, "a surprising lack of telephone calls although each patient is advised to call at any time if he has any questions or problems...