Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whose War? Shannon sees Bobby's ambiguous position on Viet Nam as the product of both opportunism and emotionalism. The war was "the ugly child of the Kennedy Administration's relief in the efficacy of counterinsurgency techniques against guerrilla warfare. And no one had been a more devoted proponent of those techniques from 1961 to 1963 than Robert Kennedy." What sent Bobby fluttering to the dovecote was partly a desire to capitalize on liberal distaste for the war, partly a sincere disagreement on strategy, but mostly a "dislike of Lyndon Johnson, bordering upon hatred, which made it easier...
...sound drove Harrelson's weak bouncer higher and higher until Versalles had no time to make the play. Chance was through, and the moment one saw Worthington, a relief pitcher burdened with a big belly, one was sure of victory. He threw two wild pitches. Another run scored. We leaned against each other, laughing, yelling, clapping strangers on the back and shoulders, Killebrew made an error. The fifth run came home, and we were close to our team, close to each other in this communion service...
Queues at Dawn. Even so, it will take quite a while to bring relief to the long-neglected Russian consumer. Women who seek the services of the top hairdressing shops in Moscow must queue up at dawn if they expect to get in. Moscow's new glass-steel "skyscrapers" (of modest height) became functionless in last summer's heat as broken air conditioners remained unfixed...
...Smith, 35, an Englishman who divides his time between New York and London, won the $10,000 grand prize. His particular bag is the shaped canvas, in which the aluminum frame is turned up at one corner to give the stretched canvas the smooth curve of a semi-bas-relief. There are six such squares of canvas, each painted in a light, bright acrylic color. The series bears the Beatlesque title, A Whole Year and Half Day, and seven of the nine critics on the international jury voted for it. Explained one, Mexico's Ida Rodriguez...
...then, Baden-Powell ventured into the Boer lines to reconnoiter their positions. Much of the time he engaged in games, sketching and composing his fanciful reports to London. It seemed almost a pity when a column under Colonel Bryan ("The Mahout") Mahon rode into town to effect the celebrated relief. The whole Empire went gaga. In London, "Mafeking Night" lasted five days. It was, writes Gardner, "a vast and apparently uncontrollable upsurge of joy, nationalism, and mended pride...