Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teams do it and whoop for joy. Good teams do it and breathe sighs of relief. The Oakland Raiders have sustained a franchise doing it, and it's probably the only kind of winning that John Madden will ever praise on national television...
...bondmaids who have been victimized by their carelessness. Han's mother prays as a last resort before selling her daughter. But finally she is forced to realize that "Sky God has no eyes nor ears" for the helpless village women who "had cried to [him] from time immemorial" for relief from abusive husbands and yearly pregnancies. Han's own prayers that Wu will return her love are only answered when she constructs her own altar to an abandoned female idol she finds in the woods...
...relief of some listeners, McBride picked up his upright bass immediately after finishing "Twenty-Seven Summers," and the trio launched into a swinging, up-tempo 12-bar blues. With McBride walking up and down his bass and Redman offering some bluesy riffs, the audience got right back into it and afterwards applauded enthusiastically as the trio took a collective bow, arms over each others' shoulders...
...many women who wander into and out of his life, by sharing a pair of boots with her: they are big enough for the two of them to wear together, he says, and proves it. The character of Frau Bast (Brigitte Mira), the nosy landlady, also adds comic relief to the tensions of the film: she is the woman consistently and rudely locked out during Biberkopf's romantic interludes...
INTESTINAL RELIEF Injections of an experimental antibody may greatly improve hard-to-treat cases of Crohn's disease. Crohn's is a painful chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract...