Word: leper
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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...
When the Japs occupied North Borneo during the war, the natives remained fiercely loyal to the British, who had brought them these blessings. Some of the Company's officers were interned in a leper colony by the Japs. One day, a group of loyalist lepers came up to the Company's Governor to ask if they could bump off some other lepers (who had collaborated with the Japs) when & if the Company's rule was restored after the war. Asked the Governor: "Why don't you do it now?" Replied one of the lepers: "The Japs...