Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Relief. In some respects, it was a brilliantly crafted speech, straightforward sounding and without the self-pity of last April's performance. It was carefully balanced between shouldering the blame and pushing it off on others, between condemning Watergate and excusing it, between criticizing the cover-up and justifying it on security grounds...
...short, the President was scrambling to break clear of Watergate, pleading other urgent business. For the present at least, that other business offered no relief, no encouragement for the country. Nixon defined his mandate thus: "to control inflation, to reduce the power and size of Government, to cut the cost of living ... to achieve peace with honor in Southeast Asia and bring home America's prisoners of war, to build a new prosperity without inflation and without...
...dirt, men!" one officer yelled-to the relief of Pfc. Willie Wilkins from Akron, who proceeded to lie face down in the sand. "These people can be gung-ho," he muttered, "but I'm just going to play the game. I can give you my opinion of this entire operation in two words...
...local boys (Richard Dreyfuss and Ronny Howard) are set to leave for college. Howard and his girl (Cindy Williams) are surrogates for AIP's Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, the straight-arrow guy and his girl, the latter a believer in early marriage and eternal obligation. Comic relief is provided by Charlie Martin Smith as the sad sack, and a glimpse into the classic cruising style by Paul Le Mat, who slides down the street in an unbeatable car, his hair in an unruffled d.a., his pack of Camels rolled in the sleeve of his T shirt. The greaser...
Wells seems to have equated love with what the MacKenzies call "intellectual euphoria." Sex, by contrast, was mainly for the relief of tension and depression. "There comes a moment in the day," he once told Charlie Chaplin, "when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time...