Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus music lovers heard with relief that Avery Fisher, 67, a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi components, has given an estimated $10 million to maintain what now becomes Avery Fisher Hall, and the fourth Lincoln Center building named for benefactors. Philanthropist Vivian Beaumont Allen gave $5,000,000, Arts Patron Alice Tully, an estimated $5,000,000, and Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse...
Furthermore, board members foresaw only moderate relief on the price front for next year, combined with a marked-and possibly serious-downturn in economic growth...
...this mission, he gets a certain amount of support and comic relief from two Americans named Roper (John Saxon) and Williams (Jim Kelly). Roper is a fast-talking scam artist; Williams is black and supposedly a prodigious sexual athlete...
...together in Marienbad. If there was any physical intimacy between them, the letters make no allusion to it. One month after the announcement of the second engagement in July 1917, Kafka writes Felice of his first tubercular hemorrhage. He seems to have broken the news with a sense of relief. TB was not only a way out of marriage but, he believed, nature's final judgment-the fatal wound caused by his warring selves...
...overcrowding has had serious effects on six Houses--Currier, Dunster, Leverett, Mather, Quincy and Winthrop--with few signs of early relief. Sophomore roommate groups have been split in several cases, and living rooms turned into economy doubles...