Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which began the final game with the good-luck singing of Kate Smith (the Flyers have a record of 43-3-1 after her performances of God Bless America before home games), protected its league championship with a 4-to-l victory. Said Flyer Coach Fred Shero, with obvious relief: "Nobody had better take the Islanders for granted next season...
There is some relief in sight...
...more than a month after the airlift of orphaned and abandoned Vietnamese children that preceded the collapse of the Thieu regime, the adoptive American parents of these children have felt dogged by hostility. The Catholic Relief Services and the American Friends Service Committee--groups that might have been involved in the airlift in Vietnam--refused to have any part in it. The revolutionary government in South Vietnam, various antiwar groups in the United States and "Doonesbury" joined the list of those who condemn the adoption of war orphans and question the motives of their American families. These parents were accused...
...watched the before-the-fall reports out of Saigon, he recalls, "I said to my wife, 'What do you think?' She knows I'm a nut." Two days later Mills headed for Saigon, carrying $10,000 in cash. By last week his spontaneous, one-man relief mission had whisked 110 Vietnamese out of harm...
...will of a population that only days before had been in a state of panic. The Communists gave every indication that they would establish tight, unopposed control over the land and people that had suddenly become theirs. But the mood in South Viet Nam last week was one of relief and calm as the conquerors took their first steps away from the art of war and toward the less spectacular, more complex art of governing...