Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unpublished cable that analysts working on the Pentagon papers studied with fascination. It was sent to President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in response to a proposal from General Maxwell Taylor that the U.S. dispatch 8,000 troops to Viet Nam, ostensibly to work on flood relief. Taylor's recommendation included using the troops to commit American prestige in Viet Nam, to shore up morale and provide a back-up for the South Vietnamese army and to serve as an advance force for a wider American involvement. The cable argued against the recommendations, reasoning that the U.S. could still walk...
...their conference room to hear his formal acceptance of their conditions for British entry. As Rippon stepped into the room on the second story of Luxembourg's modernistic Kirchberg European Center, the rumpled, bleary-eyed ministers spontaneously broke into applause. The gesture was as much an indication of relief as of welcome to Britain, whose two earlier bids had been rebuffed by Charles de Gaulle...
...depths of its economic doldrums, the U.S. entertainment industry rallied last week to raise over $800,000 for its Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. There were parties all weekend, notably one given by Sammy Davis Jr. and a "come casually beautiful" dinner dance at Polly Bergen's. The gala, with an audience of 5,300 at the Los Angeles Music Center, outgalaed just about everything in Hollywood memory. "Never before have so many stars appeared in one evening," said M.C. Jimmy Stewart, "and that includes the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards...
Silver Clips. Donovan's team cut around the appendage, taking out the arteries that supplied blood to the incomplete twin. After that, they found to their relief that the removal would not impair the patient's circulation. They next separated and took out the duplicate bladder. Then, after marking the limits of Enrique's own pelvis with silver clips, they cut away the extra pelvis and hip joints and removed the growth. The procedure left ample skin flaps for suturing...
NEARLY all of America's big cities share the malady: while the cost of services steadily mounts, the tax base that provides for those services just as surely shrinks. In this year of recession, funds are shorter than ever, leading desperate mayors to seek relief in Washington, in state capitols and in an array of burdensome new taxes that the public can scarcely support. Yet, aggravated as they are, the problems of all other American mayors absolutely pale beside those of John Lindsay, the embattled mayor of New York City...