Word: rebuild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invasion of South Korea that year forced an abrupt about-face in U.S. policy. Aid and arms were poured into the beleaguered island so that it might withstand invasion, rebuild and modernize its economy, develop foreign trade. The U.S. has since funneled $2.7 billion in military aid to Chiang's government in Taipei, plus some $1.5 billion in economic assistance. A land-reform program has more than doubled farm productivity, while more and more of the nation's resources have been harnessed to industry. Formosa today boasts the Orient's second highest standard of living (after Japan...
...overcome, there would still be the crucial problem of supply, which can only be met by cadavers; unlike kidney donors, who have a second kidney to keep them going, no man can donate his liver and live. But the liver has a remarkable ability to regenerate damaged cells and rebuild lost tissue-an ability which suggested to University of Kentucky Surgeon Ben Eiseman that if a diseased human liver could be given a vacation from its vital work, it might rebuild itself sufficiently to start functioning properly once more...
...poor alone do not make up Boston's population, nor must their problems be the sole concern of the New Bostonians. But until they confront the problems of poverty, discrimination, and education, their attempt to rebuild John Winthrop's "City on a Hill" will remain a futile experiment. Their symbol will be the Prudential Tower, graceless, sterile, out-of-scale, but nonetheless a tribute to Boston's ingenuity and progress, though hardly its humanity
...Rebuild. President Frei ordered army units into stricken areas with bulldozers, food and clothes. A tent village sprang up outside El Cobre, and the afternoon after the quake Frei himself arrived. "This is terrible, terrible," he repeated. "Señor Presidente, help us," pleaded one miner. "That is why I am here," said Frei, "to be with you." Army engineers dug for bodies, found...
...however, wholly invulnerable. During parachute training he broke a leg. The double fracture healed slowly, and he feared he would be washed out of cosmonaut training. His father, a rural physician, prescribed weight-lifting to rebuild the damaged leg, and eventually it grew strong enough to pass examination...