Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopeless faces of wheel-chaired rows of idle pensioners in a nursing home; where I see old men fishing for carp at the city sewage outfall (the fish gather there to eat) because they can afford no other source of protein, early death by slow poison seems a delightful relief by comparison...
...figure may indicate in part that more women are simply waiting longer to have children, but the 26% decline in the ratio during the 1960s was the most rapid within a decade in the nation's history. Among other things, the drop could mean at least temporary relief for all of the communities that have been scrambling for years to provide sufficient classroom space for their increasing numbers of children. It may also indicate that a cautious new psychology of family planning and reproduction is taking hold...
...really a lark. But when they got out there they got serious." Thus Dick Smothers, the eventual winner, described the inaugural Celebrity Pro-Am Auto Race at Ontario, Calif. The $50,000 purse went to the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund, and stars of all styles turned out to draw the crowds. Dan Gurney and Poncho Gonzalez sprinted into the lead, lost it, and then regained it by cutting up-and across the infield-thoroughly disqualifying themselves. Second behind Smothers and his partner Bobby Unser came Astronaut Pete Conrad and Mario Andretti. Despite a sprained ankle, Paul Newman leadfooted...
Susan, 18, the family activist, has just graduated from one of Davis' high schools?much to his relief, she thinks. "I had constant run-ins with teachers and principals about student rights, and he got calls from them. One day I didn't salute the flag in school and someone complained. He got a lot of backlash, and I'm really grateful for his tolerance...
...only did nine of the first twelve patients report relief from pain and regain their ability to move about and lift objects without suffering fractures, but there was also a bonus that Dr. Bartter had scarcely dared to hope for. The treatment's effect lasted for months, and in one case for more than two years. If the effect wears off, Bartter says, the infusions can be easily and safely repeated. While no one yet claims to know what 'makes nature's calcium-regulating mechanism go wrong, medical science now has a way to put it right...