Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shepard came on in relief of O'Malley and two fielding errors loaded the bases with two cuts. Shepard struck out the side and got the first three Brandeis batters in the ninth to ground out, preserving the victory for O'Malley...
Finally, last week, Nixon spoke up. He called a White House press conference, grimly read a prepared statement that took just three minutes, and refused to answer questions. While top politicians in both parties expressed relief that the President finally seemed aware of the ramifications of Watergate, Nixon's statement reflected only the minimum that needed to be said?and it should have been expressed months...
However, Lieberman, Yalom and Miles also report that a third of their subjects showed "short-run positive changes." Although the researchers believe that encounter groups sometimes offer "momentary relief from alienation," they warn that the groups can be dangerous and that their "danger is not counterbalanced by high gain...
...deficit-yes, deficit-of $1.1 billion, caused by a hefty rise in Japanese imports and a huge outflow of long-term investment capital. Though the payment figures have been bouncing around too erratically from month to month to establish any definitive trend yet, they may presage-to the vast relief of the U.S.-the dwindling if not the end of the gigantic Japanese surpluses in commercial dealings with the world...
...absurd: the mock-epic failure of a farmer named Hugo to get his cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks