Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toll stood at 35 dead and 900 injured.* Property damage was estimated at $46 million, with 744 buildings damaged or destroyed by fire, 457 picked bare by looters. Nearly 4,300 had been arrested, and the total kept on mounting as Negroes who sported telltale new clothes or possessions were hauled in on suspicion of receiving stolen goods. To avoid a similar fate, other looters began abandoning their booty. Police recovered more than 50,000 stolen articles: television sets, a score of sofas, hundreds of lamps, a truckload of beer. More than 3,000 of those arrested faced felony charges...
Ruin & Starvation. Haiti has always been poor. Now it is getting poorer. Per capita income averages $70 a year, per capita food averages 1,780 calories a day, and life expectancy is a bare 32 years−all three the lowest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy is 90%, and population density is 415 persons per square mileboth the highest of any Latin American nation...
Declaring that young people want to know "not just what but why," and that current science and Biblical scholarship have provided deeper in sight into "the world and the Word," he said that law is a "bare minimum. The Christian must go beyond the law, to love...
...write that Johnson is "so possessed by his vision of building a better life for every American that at times he seems ready to scoop up the country in his bare hands and mold it to suit him." Is this the much lauded Great Society? What will be left of individual responsibility and initiative? What is left for man to work for if the Federal Government provides shelter, education, health services and retirement benefits...
...paddyfield far out in the Dominican countryside, a bare-chested campesino whipped his straining oxen. "Go, you lovelies!" he cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo...