Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles north of Saigon, the Communists kept up a steady but diminishing mortar and artillery attack on the town's 6,000 defenders, while a South Vietnamese relief force remained stalled under enemy fire on Highway 13. An Loc has little strategic value, but it has become a symbol of victory or defeat to both the North and South. "As it slowly disappears under the combined weight of allied bombing and Communist bombardment," reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, who visited the area last week, "its symbolic importance grows ever greater. Like Dien Bien Phu, which also had no particular...
Brayton had pitched seven innings on Saturday and had faced three batters in relief on Sunday. "After two straight days of pitching I just didn't have anything left. I was trying to keep the ball low and get by on experience. It worked all right for two innings, but after that I couldn't throw strikes," Brayton said...
Sandy Weissant had pitched seven innings the day before against UConn, and he was ineffective in relief of Brayton in the fourth inning. Relief specialist Norm Walsh had pitched five shut-out innings on Saturday to beat Providence, but he also was unable to stop the Huskies' rally...
Walsh allowed only one hit in five innings of relief, and Harvard finally won the game with a two-out rally in the 12th inning. Hampe led off with a walk, and moved to third on two infield outs. Vince McGugan walked and stole second, and Toby Harvey drove in two runs with a single to center...
...measurable progress. Occasionally he blurts a word or flashes a gesture, indicating a slim connection to this world. But it is likely, as he grows older and harder to handle, that he will have to be institutionalized. It is a prospect that the Greenfelds view with conflicting dread and relief. For as Greenfeld tactfully conveys in this moving collection of a year's journal entries, the family of any abnormal child is almost equally victimized. With a novelist's skill and perceptions, Greenfeld tells not only of the daily burden of Noah but of the guilts and suspicions...