Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese relief column, sent to reopen An Loc's lifeline in the early days of the Communist offensive, was still pinned down as of last week to the south along Highway 13. The relief force has suffered at least 5,000 casualties, but in the past month it has hardly advanced a yard...
...some areas were delayed later than at any other time in this century. A heat wave roasted 14 Indian states, killed 800 persons and directly affected another 50 million. The loss in standing crops such as sugar cane and jute was over $400 million, and in several states famine relief measures were introduced to give work and wages to people who would otherwise starve...
Once committed, the patient may be treated with chlorpromazine, a powerful tranquilizer that is widely used in U.S. mental institutions. Chinese psychiatrists also use acupuncture experimentally "for relief of excitement...
...recent book, The Waterfall. Rose is divorced, with three small children and a national reputation as an "eccentric." What really caused her notoriety was money. A major Midlands heiress, she had enraged her family by marrying a penniless Greek boy and giving her inheritance away to a dubious African relief fund. The family squabble made all the tabloids. Ten years later, Rose is found raising a family in a working-class district of London while her tempestuous ex-husband, now making plenty of money, bedevils her to gain custody of the children, whom he would like to enroll...
...Comic relief is provided by a cast of four regulars, who make up a motley, multiracial sampling of the building's tenants: an Italian con man, a black superintendent, a fiery Puerto Rican and a jittery white liberal. "Quite on!" shouted the ersatz liberal in a demonstration of solidarity with Davis in last week's installment. "You know," he added, "I was the first to complain when they took Amos 'n' Andy off the air." It is a complaint likely to be echoed by a broader audience when the Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show ends...