Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tents and huts. There are only six doctors for the entire camp, and in the suffocating heat (110° in the shade) children die like flies. East Pakistan has erected dozens of its own refugee camps. To hasten integration of the newcomers, some local officials have ordered villages to absorb a fixed quota of the refugees, who come in relentless hundreds each...
...legal acceptance by an international conference, how can we survive? I don't trust the Communists too much. No, no. But recognition is much better than not having it." On another occasion he said: "Communism is inevitable in Asia. It is to be hoped that China will not absorb us geographically. At worst, we will be a sort of Hungary, but we will keep our name, our flag and our identity...
...surface, it contains 18 million people, or one-third the island's population. The government proposes building three new cities for up to 250,000 people in this area. In addition, two new developments, each holding 100,000, are planned and 16 existing towns will be expanded to absorb population increases of 30,000 people...
Saltonstall himself had several reservations about the program. "Are we hurrying the Nigerians too much?" he asked. "We are only doing what the government asks us to do, but I'm just not sure that they can absorb so much as fast as we expect them...
...forests of New Guinea, native boys must undergo a kind of tribal bar mitzvah in which reeds are forced up their noses and down their throats to bleed out the spirits of their mothers. Some tribal warriors still eat a slice of a dead victim's liver to absorb his magic. Barely out of the Stone Age, this primitive land, composed of Australian Papua and the United Nations trust territory of Northeast New Guinea, was last week nevertheless preparing itself for self-government...