Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past 15 years; of a heart attack; in Wellington, New Zealand. Born a cobbler's son in Scotland, Fraser went to New Zealand at 26, rose from labor unionizing to Parliament to the cabinet. Dourly witty Teetotaler Fraser was admired even by his political enemies for bossing relief during the 1918 influenza plague, once selling his own furniture to aid the needy during the Depression, working for the welfare of New Zealand's Maoris. Last year, after a decade of mounting public resentment against government restrictions, a solid majority of voters ousted both Fraser and socialism...
...with his father and father-in-law in a working-class apartment in the dusty, dirty Batignolles district above the Gare St. Lazare, Paul Colin was not aware that he had captured the year's literary jackpot. Novelist Colin, a thin, retiring young man, was living on unemployment relief...
...year produced a whole clutch of books on the nature of Communism and Communists, how hard it was to get along with them, what a relief it was to get away from them. The titles told most of the story, and little of it was new, though much of it could stand retelling: The God That Failed, by half a dozen celebrities who had swallowed the Marxist hook but didn't have the wit to gag until they got to the sinker; General Walter Bedell Smith's saga of ambassadorial frustration, My Three Years in Moscow; General Frank...
...Grande (Argosy; Republic] continues the descent of Director John Ford into his latter-day role as scourge of thd redskin and glorifier of the U.S. Cavalry. The Rover-boy characters, the conflict of love v. duty, the boisterous comic relief, the cavalry charges and screeching Indian raids are all here, set against the well-photographed buttes and plains of what used to be God's country before Ford took it over...
...mortar explosions come faster. Should Moncay garrison send out a relief column? Impossible! With one company away on an island-clearing operation, there's only one company of Legionnaires left to hold Moncay citadel, as the Viet Minh doubtless know. Towards morning the explosions stop. The air is warm and heavy and very still. The meteorological report forecasts a typhoon...