Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then not to forsake me when my time comes. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense any more." Schur reassured his patient that he had not forgotten. "When he was again in agony, I gave him a hypodermic of two centigrams of morphine. He soon felt relief and fell into a peaceful sleep. I repeated this dose after about twelve hours. He lapsed into a coma and did not wake up again...
...mixed fortune of intelligence. As writer, teacher and editor, he has for the past 25 years made essential contributions to the understanding of modern art in America. "It's my way of being social, rather than going to cocktail parties," he says. "It's also an excellent relief from the anguish of painting-an attempt to regain my social equilibrium and to give back to society something of what it has so generously given me: education, respect, dignity, artistic freedom." Thus he is the opposite of the cliché that stuck to Abstract Expressionism-the artist as roaring...
...were available to anyone put out of a job by the floods. State authorities joined the struggle to return flooded areas to normal, and there were estimates that by week's end, most public utilities would be back in operation and that water would be fit to drink. Relief supplies were arriving in such abundance that one Wilkes-Barre worker gazed at the tons of material and said: "It will take three months to sort this stuff, let alone get it to the victims." Little looting was reported-but one Pennsylvania thief fell out of his boat while looting...
...asked the state legislature for authority to make those companies organize assigned-risk "pools" similar to those used by auto insurers to cover any customers who cannot find a firm willing to insure them. Last week, while other state officials in the flood-torn Northeast were praising relief efforts, Denenberg excoriated federal officials for not having publicized federal flood insurance. "A lot of people would have been better off if they had tossed a match to their homes before leaving them," he said. "At least most of them had fire insurance coverage...
...activities, will (provided he has any sense) discuss those activities with the press. The knowledge that anything said to a reporter is subject to grand jury scrutiny effectively restricts the ability of the press to expose, investigate and analyze. Indeed, the Supreme Court's decision must come as welcome relief to shysters who know the chances are 50-50 they can buy off the police, but who become queasy under the curious eye of a self-righteous, snooping reporter...