Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break in Budapest on March 11, 1938, when he was allowed to conduct Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. The first act went well, Solti recalls, but with the start of the second act, the singers started making mistakes while the audience grew raucously restless. To his relief Solti later learned that his conducting was not the cause: word had reached the audience that Hitler was on his way into Vienna, only 130 miles away...
Later that morning, the assembled staff was told. Champagne to soothe the shock was provided in paper cups. But the news had been expected for so long that some staffers expressed relief "At least we know now," said Senior Editor Douglas Gasner "It's over...
...contemporaries, who generally towered over him, excluded him from their games. Teachers were often equally unsympathetic, calling him "Shorty" and browbeating him for his inability to keep up with his classmates in physical education. Even the doctors consulted by his parents provided little in the way of relief. According to Erick's mother, Mrs. Dorothy Carstensen of Los Angeles: "They'd all say the same thing: 'Don't worry about it. He'll shoot up overnight...
Park plans to revamp the rotation this week, as the Crimson face four, possibly five games. "I may have to bring Norm Walsh out of the bullpen," he said, "and rely more on Kim Sheperd for relief...
Cronin pitched three innings in relief, allowing only a solo wind-aided round-tripper in the eighth inning...