Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many nations," said the President, "are in danger of being torn apart by ethnic divisions, by political rivalries, by religious conflict. We must seek resolution of differences and we must stand with each other to prevent all these quarrels of the world from being imported into our own national life...
...hillbilly, a hillbilly from the hill country, and they'll never accept you." When he pressed the advice, Johnson only stared at him coldly. Connally never followed Johnson's tactic of trying to win the love of his enemies. In retrospect he says: "They made his life miserable. He wasted four years trying to win them over...
...makeshift shopping-bag luggage, pausing at the bottom to fold their hands and bow formally to the flight attendants. After a briefing in Khmer and Lao and the processing of health forms, the refugees were hustled aboard buses and taken to a TraveLodge motel for introductory lessons on American life: how to operate light switches, how to use a toilet. Many stood on the motel's second-floor balcony and stared uncomprehendingly at the rush of traffic below. Others squatted on the pink sidewalk and simply gazed at their feet. They had journeyed several centuries in 19 hours...
...Gulf Coast region of Texas, are given free English lessons and job training, and access to Medicaid and welfare. Nine major voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Protestant Church World Service, match arrivals with reliable sponsors who will help them adjust to their new life. The U.S. gives the voluntary agencies $350 per refugee...
...February on a rickety boat with 60 other people. Although the Malaysians opened fire on the refugees when they first tried to land, and many were later raped or robbed, the foursome wound up safely at a camp and were allowed to immigrate to America. "We have a different life and different customs," says Nga, who is a hospital technician, while her husband has qualified for his pharmacist license in the U.S. "But we can't regret what has happened before. We are luckier than most...