Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have seen Bukhara. But its neighboring ancient cities on the vast Central Asian steppes seem to have learned their lesson. In the bustling streets of modern Tashkent and the redolent, mud-walled courtyards of Samarkand (pop. 170,000), short, moonfaced Uzbeks with golden skin and embroidered skullcaps no longer call the Russians hated koperlar (infidels). The commissars have done their work well. This summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded with satisfying peeks at these...
...this is a profitable country in which to invest, not for altruistic reasons. U.S. capital dominates many key Canadian industries. What this means is that the making of economic decisions affecting Canada lies far too often in non-Canadian hands." Said the Financial Post: "Canadians wonder whether they can call their country their own when outsiders own so much...
...Nate was a crew chief in the Army Air Corps when he heard the call to the mission field. The 21-year-old, who had been hipped on airplanes since he was eleven, wrote to his mother and sister: "The Lord clipped my wings ... it seemed logical to suppose that an inherent yen to fly defied the Lord's will, but He said 'no!' " As his letter was on its way home, another from his father crossed its path with a clipping about an organization called the Christian Airmen's Missionary Fellowship. Now renamed the Missionary...
...Viet Nam, returned to Asia to set up hospitals in the remotest parts of Red-threatened northern Laos. There, three months ago, "Dr. Tom" was trudging along a snag-strewn jungle trail from his hospital at Muong Sing, only five miles from the Chinese border, to make a "house call" when he fell and bumped his right chest. It felt like nothing worse than a bruise. It was, but it had an unpredictable result. Later, when Dr. Dooley felt pain and a growing lump in his chest, he neglected...
...tiny village in north Laos. The royal government supplied 44 canoes for the eight-day trip to get his 14 tons of equipment to the site. "We built a hospital without water or electricity," says Dr. Dooley. "We had 35 beds, 50 mats, and a daily sick call of 100 persons." He insisted that even the poorest patients pay some fee, arguing that charity undermines self-respect, usually collected a pig as fee for an operation, a chicken for delivering a child...