Word: lepers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurled himself into the waves. Loungers looked up, transistor-radio earplugs popped out of ears. Again and again the man plunged into the sea, and a crowd began to gather. Before people knew what had happened, they were listening to the dripping prophet tell the story of Naaman the leper, who threw himself seven times into the River Jordan and was miraculously healed...
...broke off his studies and set off with a friend on a motorcycle tour of South America. They crossed the Andes, abandoned their motorcycle when it gave out in Chile, then hitchhiked to Peru and Ecuador, winding up with jobs as male nurses in a leper colony near the source of the Amazon. They floated downriver into Colombia, crossed into Venezuela, and snagged a lift to Miami aboard a plane carrying race horses from Buenos Aires. Che was turned back by U.S. immigration authorities. He headed home to finish the seven-year course of studies in three years. When...
...Bishop of Blackburn, who as a missionary in the South Seas (Bishop of Melanesia) during World War II bundled his charges on Florida Island (in the Solomons) off to the hills when the Japanese arrived, set up a leaf hut as his episcopal seat and ran a hospital and leper colony until the Americans landed; in Clayton-le-Dale, England...
...party color, and when the Moslems protested against his promise to make Buddhism the state religion, he gently reminded them that it was he who had translated their own Koran into Burmese. And while campaigners enthusiastically shrieked epithets at each other as in the old days ("Epileptic!" "Mange-covered leper!"), U Nu took the line that a victory for his opponents "might produce a third World...