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The paper then goes on to relieve whatever anxieties are currently being suffered by libertarian fight fans: "The president, however, stopped short of suggesting federal intervention in boxing."
Ben remembers how, as a child, the pulp magazines Amazing and Astounding , with their "remote, radiant, exploding facts," used to relieve the pressure of everyday bleakness for him.
My closing comment referred to current research that attempts to show that homosexuality is gene-related, which I termed “fatalistic” because it would appear to relieve any individual of responsibility for his actions: as we learn from frequent press reports, defense attorneys are seeking exoneration for their clients on the grounds that although they committed the crime in question, it was circumstances--abuse when they were children is quite popular--that were responsible for their actions, and they should be let off.
Jeans mentions one modern authority, whose identity I should like to know, who makes the intriguing suggestion that horses aboard sailing ships often had to be lifted overboard into the sea to relieve their thirst, a theory that even Jeans regards as ludicrous.
Sure the big companies are more coy in their pitches--the Hall's Zinc Defense box says zinc "may" relieve cold symptoms and, in small print, denies making any claim to treating a health condition--but that only makes the sham more effective.