Word: broken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crops. Since the recent downing of a Red Cross food plane by Nigerian MIGs (see color opposite), relief planes paid for by Catholic and Protestant charities have been able to bring in less than 100 tons weekly. As a result, an often-fatal protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor has broken out again, mostly among children...
...contributors who have joined the crusade in the past three months. All told, Billy James commands 200,000 contributing followers. He spends an annual budget of $2,000,000 and broadcasts his theologically fundamentalist, politically conservative message over some 100 radio stations. Ever expanding his horizons, he has just broken ground for his own new American College in Tulsa, Okla., to teach "God, government and Christian action...
Twenty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, the buff granite cliffs surrounding Little Cottonwood Canyon are broken by barred, concrete-framed tunnel openings. Behind the bank-vault doors with in, protected by a temperature that remains almost constant near 57 °F., and a humidity that hovers between 40% and 50%, is the world's largest collection of family records: more than 650,000 rolls of microfilm carrying more than 500 million pages of genealogical statistics going back as far as the 14th century. Only the direct hit of a nuclear bomb could endanger them...
...strong encouragement for the bishop to examine his conscience and then resign his post in the interest of the church. Perhaps the worst aspects of the Defregger imbroglio are its repercussions in the religious life of Germany. For the first time in years, the German Evangelical (Lutheran) Church has broken a carefully maintained harmony with the Catholic hierarchy to criticize Catholic handling of the case, and the prestige of Cardinal Döpfner has been damaged...
...theory that smoking is a simple habit set off by "cues" - tension, ending a meal or performing a task. To break the habit, he explains, "we put people on a diet and provide them with a substitute for the old signal. The old associations have to be broken down...