Word: gowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Below his face is a couplet: "To keep Nigeria one is the cause that must be won." The rhyme is meant to encourage Nigerians in their war with break away Biafra, but the poster paper has begun to tatter. The war, which Gow on originally predicted would be "a surgical police action," next week enters its third bloody year...
...hold Nigeria together. He tried. After the Ibo massacres, he offered concessions, but whatever he did was interpreted by Governor Ojukwu as one more sign of duplicity and hatred. On the one hand, it seemed, Gowon offered friendship, while on the other, the people he governed murdered Ibos. Gow- on was caught. Only punishing the Hausa mobs involved in the riots would have placated Ojukwu, but to punish Hausas when the bulk of the army was Hausa would have been political suicide...
...marvelous and that the professional staff is too old, and too tired, and too beaten down by the system, even to try. Similarly, with the adults, case-aides can invest in an individual in a situation where normally one doctor, with 300 patients, gets to see them once every Gow-knows-when. This is not the doctor's fault, he is overburdened and just...
Although the plant will take two years for completion, more immediate anti-pollution aid should arrive in the coming months when Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant is finished. Frederick Gow, of the Metropolitan District Commission's Construction Division, said yesterday that Charles water would be noticeably cleaner in the next four to five months as a result of the Deer Island plant. The Construction Division is in charge of both projects...
Tuesday, March 1, 1932, was raw and windy in central New Jersey. The baby in the still incomplete new house at Hopewell had caught the sniffles, and Nurse Betty Gow was careful to rub Vicks ointment on his chest before she put him to bed at 8. Two hours later, she tiptoed into the nursery to look in on her sleeping charge. But even before the light was snapped on, she sensed that the crib was empty...