Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some, like Leggett, have to worry about a thesis before celebrating the thawing of the icy river and the opening of the boathouse at the end of March. It is a welcome relief...
...began with a suspicious scratching sound in Attorney General Edward Levi's ornate fifth-floor office in the Justice Department. A bug, perhaps? Much to the A.G.'s relief, a small gray mouse was eventually seen to dart into a hole not ten feet from his vast mahogany desk. Chicagoan Levi knew that the perpetrator was not from his home town, said an aide, "because it doesn't wear a slouch hat." Other Justice officials were unamused. Startled by what turned out to be a secret army of squatters in their gray stone colossus, they demanded...
...shortcomings of Pajaczkowski's Faustus are thrown into sharper relief by the masterful performance of Greg Landis as Mephistophilis. The embodiment of controlled torment, Landis remains sympathetic even while hissing damnation. When the memory of his own loss of grace moves him to warn Faustus of the devil's snares, Landis projects a dignity never fully attained by his victim...
...foor jumper during the Classic uprising, then missed a critical scoop lay-up that would have cut the lead to three. But at the other end, Rick Bengal was hacked, sunk a pair of free throws, and heaved a seven-point lead sigh of relief. Bob Hooft's banker in the final seconds padded the spread...
...cent of its total revenue--for guns, to keep the Reds out of the capital. So the food shortage worsened. Rations were only sixty per cent of normal human requirements. Prices soared and black marketeers prospered. Corruption was so severe that the Lon Nol regime could not administer a relief program with the food it did have. Death by starvation and epidemic became common by mid-April because of the collapse of the water supply, transportation, power, and medical care systems...