Word: leper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing. At a Girl Guide (Girl Scout) review in dark Basutoland, it was she who spotted a bus full of Guides kept well apart from the rest. Despite the anguished cries of officials, she promptly went over to talk to them. They were the Girl Guide troop from a leper colony. Next day everyone in South Africa knew what the Princess had done...
Unable to back up their protests by walking out, as had inmates of Rangoon's leper colony (TIME, Dec. 9), the prisoners joined three jailed women Communists in a hunger strike...
...leper!" said Dick, hoarsely...
...leprosarium authorities, leper leader Maung Kyaw Thu laid down demands to be met "immediately": 1) improve the wretched diet; 2) reduce working hours of inmates (now six hours daily); 3) step up injection treatments of chaulmoogra oil to the prewar level...
...WADE, M.D. Culion Leper Colony Philippines...