Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beacon Ambulance Service of Fort Lauderdale. No sirens, no red lights, just an old man dead on arrival at the Florida hos pital. The autopsy revealed "peritonitis, secondary to acute gangrenous appendicitis, ruptured." Only an uncommonly tough character could have endured such pain so long and without any relief through drugs or antibiotics. Indeed, the manner of Joe Martin's departure from life was entirely consistent with the way in which he had always conducted it. The former Republican Speaker of the House, dead last week at the age of 83, had never had much use for palliatives...
...allies are making major efforts to improve security along the highways and waterways; two weeks ago the first truck convoy since Tet, bearing relief goods for Hué, moved up the vital Highway 1 from Danang to the stricken city. In the face of the massive Communist threat throughout the corps, little else but mobile defense is being undertaken. Some 2,000 civilian volunteers are being armed in Hué, Danang, Quang Tri City and other cities as "people's self-defense forces...
...lumbered woodenly through 22 pictures portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue up the clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse. But bad as the films were, they were also an undergraduate school through...
Harvard swimmers officiated at the meet and provided some comic relief with their relay, the "Psychedelic Special...
...leave. Eventually, he is turned into a domesticated animal by his wife and homosexual sons; Wacholder digs a hole in the sand and buries himself. Whether this symbolizes the end of the world, the decline of the West, or simply the end of the play, it comes as a relief...