Word: reclaims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young, Healthy & Devout. The institute's purpose is to train missionaries, but not missionaries to the outposts of civilization. Most of its graduates go back to their homes to reclaim backslid Christians and to evangelize those whom Naziism or Communism have deprived of the barest knowledge of Christianity...
...France or elsewhere. While not secret, the work of the Missions is kept discreetly quiet, to avoid attracting undue attention from the Communists, and because their priests' unorthodox activities sometimes offend strait-laced Roman Catholics. But on no other front is the church working any harder to reclaim its lost sheep...
...Holland's farmers, expanding industry is just one more problem: as fast as they reclaim fertile land from lakes, marshes and sea, the land-hungry Dutch find other acres swallowed up by growing cities, new roads and airfields. Farmers lucky enough to find land are often caught without a market. One of them, 49-year-old Truck Farmer Simon Eygenraam, summed up their problem: "Look, we Dutchmen together produce much more than the home market needs, and we export, mostly to Britain and Germany. But we're hampered by trade restrictions and quotas . . . I cannot get foreign currency...