Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high noon in Managua. A strong wind off Lake Managua brought some relief from the scorching heat, but ice cream vendors did their usual brisk trade as people arrived to pay their taxes at the lakeside National Palace. Suddenly 24 soldiers in olive green fatigues and black berets, the uniform of the National Guard training school, drew up in trucks. "Make way. Here comes el Hombre," snapped one of the soldiers as he ran to a side entrance and opened a path in the crowd. Bystanders expected to see General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, Latin America's most notorious strongman...
...controlling events, but more important, were reflecting a widespread public mood. As the discussions dragged on through the night and into the next day, conditions in the overcrowded, ill-equipped palace became intolerable. Hostages who could not wait to use any of the four toilets in the palace found relief in wastebaskets behind the speaker's lectern in the Chamber of Deputies. During the first night, 300 people escaped by pushing out an air conditioner and climbing out a window. The guerrillas later released all children and most of the women. That still left more hostages than even the guerrillas...
...notified that they would all be housed in Grays Hall this fall. (Actually, some of you are supposed to be living in Grays Hall next year, right above University police headquarters. Think about it.) About 40 phone calls later, Harvard discovered its mistake, and most sighed a breath of relief that they did not have to go through another year in the Yard...
...Moriarty), who is both feckless and luckless. The stuff is supposed to be dropped on the latter's wife (Tuesday Weld), who is a prescription-drug doper. A corrupt narcotics agent (Anthony Zerbe, at his meanest) and a couple of ex-cons who alternately provide comic and sadistic relief want to rip off the junk. All this leads to a chase that covers much of the southwestern U.S., which is naturally visualized entirely as a wasteland...
...there was less to the good news than met the eye. Food prices, which rocketed during the winter and spring, dipped 0.3% at wholesale in July, promising some relief at the supermarket checkout in coming months. The dip had been expected, however. Indeed, if it had not occurred, the U.S. would have been in a desperate inflationary jam: wholesale prices of other finished goods continued to jump at double-digit rates. At best, chances have only improved for holding consumer-price increases for the year to no more than the 7.2% that the Administration forecast. Says Alan Greenspan, a member...