Word: jowl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill and a plan for doubling the amount of surplus food distributed to depressed areas, Douglas saw a longer-range program of federal grants to unemployed workers, broad regional redevelopment programs, and substantial local public-works projects that might even include creation of a Youth Conservation Corps. Cheek by jowl with Douglas in Palm Beach, Kennedy told the press that aid to depressed areas should be assigned "the most important domestic priority...
...called in to harvest the sugar crop; yet one-third of Bolivia's population continues to live in the Andes, scratching a barely human existence out of dwindling tin deposits. In Indonesia, three-quarters of the nation's close to 90 million people live in cheek-by-jowl squalor on the island of Java, while most of neighboring Sumatra is left in jungle. But habit and human contrariness being what it is, few Javanese will even consider moving to fertile Sumatra. And in Uganda, tribesmen from the overpopulated hills, hopefully resettled in the lowlands by the government, frequently...