Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never Say Die. In East London, Union of South Africa, a heart patient, who had been ordered to avoid exertion or excitement, in one day 1) battered down a door and interrupted a suicide, 2) chased and caught a speeding driver, 3) acted as midwife in a sudden emergency, 4) survived...
...belt extending almost around the world (from East Pacific islands to southeast Asia, equatorial Africa, northeast coast of South America, and up to the Caribbean islands), 189,000,000 people have filariasis, which causes swelling in the lymphoid tissues. About 20,000,000 people have oncocerciasis, which causes blindness when the worms get into the eyes. A new antimony compound called Neostibosan has proved effective against filariasis, and another new drug, hetrazan, against oncocerciasis...
...Revenge." But Farran did not kill himself. He lived through almost every dangerous battle from North Africa to Normandy. He joined the parachute Commandos, later carefully recorded their song...
Back in India, where the news from South Africa was always read with attention, they were calling Manilal the true son of his father...
Little Mammal, What Now? Even if the bomb falls, muses Author Toynbee there is still a grain of hope. The people most likely .to survive and to be capable of salvaging "some fraction of the present heritage of mankind" are the Negrito pygmies of Central Africa -a race "said by our anthropologists to have an unexpectedly pure and lofty conception of the nature of God and of God's relation...