Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demoralized fan slumped over a Quincy House pin-ball machine on the Saturday night after the Harvard-Yale football game and sighed with relief. "Thank God the hockey season starts next week...
...channeled into ten specialized agencies, including the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization; member nations are assessed these mandatory sums every year by each agency individually. Eleven other agencies, notably UNICEF, are financed by voluntary contributions. Biggest program in this category: the U.N.'s emergency relief to Bangladesh, which this year totaled $234 million, of which the U.S. has pledged fully...
...shroud of sanctimony is so oppressive that the movie's random moments of lightheartedness make one almost grovel with relief. The one good musical number portrays the selection of an author for the Declaration of Independence, with each member of the selection committee fobbing off the assignment on another, and all joining in a jaunty chorus that parodies, fleetingly, the idea that any of them should be singing or dancing at all. Sherman Edwards' songs are usually reserved for important occasions like a speech on the shared immorality of slavery, or the apparently telepathic communications between John Adams...
...crucial that Harvard continue to dominate the middle of the field in today's game. This is particularly important since both squads play a similar short passing offense that relies heavily on midfield support for offensive rushes. Cornell's European finesse soccer style should come as a welcome relief to Harvard as the Crimson had a great deal of difficulty adjusting to Brown's American-brand of hustling, long ball soccer on its last outing...
Though just one building, the Holiday Inn has become an important indicator of the direction of Square development. The reduction in height is a relief to devotees of a low contour region. Pei architects warned earlier this year that if the Holiday Inn built a high-rise, the Library Corporation might also build towers to prevent the hotel from aesthetically dominating the memorial site...