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Word: callampas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against selling rice, farmers stopped growing it because the crop had lost its religious importance. An instructor watched helplessly while typewriters distributed in Ethiopia turned to junk for lack of care. Language training for the corpsmen was once squeezed into 50 hours, and one slum worker in a Chilean callampa did not have enough Spanish to ask how to get to the bus that would take him to work. "At times they miss the mark," Vaughn confesses. "And when they do, it's certain we helped them miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Corps: More for More | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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