Word: infant
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Death & Disease. Swollen by 6,000 North Korean refugees, the population of 14,000 on the islands was so near starvation that some were surviving by eating seaweed and small crabs. Infant mortality was 40%. Not long after he arrived, Moffett saw islanders bury in the beach 53 children who had died of diphtheria. Rice, barley, cabbage and sweet potatoes could be grown only four months a year. For the remaining eight months, the islands depended on the catch brought back by 23 fishing boats...
...drop of 30,923 infant baptisms...
...U.S.S.R. Hence there is a tendency among lesser nations toward emulation of the two Cold War antagonists. This tendency should not be confused with the passing infatuation which the ex-colonial states have been showing for the trappings of nation-hood. The familiar insistence of every infant state that it be provided with an army, an airline, a steel mill, and a vote in the UN indicates emulation of established states in general rather than the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in particular. Emulation of the Cold War Powers is less demonstrable, but perhaps more influential...
...instincts developed into drives only under the whiplash of anxiety. To Sullivan, devotee of the "power motive." which drives man to pursue security, anxiety arose from the infant's apprehension of disapproval. And Sullivan had one significant insight: experiences that create anxiety not only limit the victim's activities, but also actually set limits to his awareness and hence to his learning ability...
Recreation First. The community itself is a mere infant. In 1956, Phoenix's Del E. Webb, builder and part owner of the New York Yankees, began studying retirement communities. Despite most advice to the contrary, he decided that retired people often feel uncomfortable around younger couples because their interests are so different; furthermore, they do not want children underfoot. They prefer organized activities to keep them busy, want sports facilities to be ready when they move...