Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration's statements was tempered by Ginzburg's arrest. Still, the activists were grateful for the U.S. support of Sakharov, whom most dissidents regard as "the captain of our ship." Upon hearing of the State Department admonitions on foreign short-wave radio, "we nearly cried with relief," Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week. "It was what we were waiting for. We think it has saved Sakharov; we're convinced they won't touch...
...hour move went off without a hitch. Townspeople turned out enthusiastically to watch the shuttle pass. "Weird," said Mike Frazier, 14, as he accompanied the procession on his bicycle. "Wonderful," said Mrs. Ena Moss as she watched from her roadside home. By day's end, to the visible relief of all concerned, the shuttle was safe at Edwards...
...wave of relief with the warm weather shuddered through the frozen city of Buffalo, N.Y.--which has been hit particularly hard by this year's cold spell--bringing hope to its citizens that the sun might really shine once more...
...incredible relief to think after a few more warm days I might find my Volkswagen again," a secretary in the Buffalo mayor's office said ecstatically yesterday...
...first women admitted to the institute, and proceeded to scandalize professors with her ardent and polemical radicalism. She habitually carried a trade union bulletin in one pocket of a rumpled man's jacket and the French communist newspaper L'Humanite in the other. She unabashedly solicited donations to worker relief funds from incredulous instructors...