Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claim to attention-and to pity. Malnutrition was killing off more Biafrans than the Federal troops who occupy most of their land. The chief killer was the protein- deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which turns the hair to reddish gold and cruelly swells both limbs and stomachs. Workers of international relief agencies reported that as many as 3,000 Biafrans a day were dying and that total deaths might reach 2,000,000 by the end of August. Though those figures may be exaggerated, it was clear that the war's bitterness, the rigidity and suspicion on both sides...
...first installment, Shakespeare sticks closely to business. There are in Richard II no scenes of comic relief such as adorn the three succeeding installments. Here the dramatist concentrates on four main phases: Richard's regnal recklessness: his cousin Bolingbroke's victorious invasion to retrieve his rightful property; Richard's voluntary abdication; and Bolingbroke's assured assumption of the throne as Henry...
...coast, tied down two Marine battalions on anti-ambush duty. In short, Khe Sanh remained a costly place to defend. U.S. commanders now intend to move the western an chor of U.S. defenses south of the DMZ eleven miles northeastward to Landing Zone Stud, the site from which the relief of Khe Sanh, Operation Pegasus, was launched three months ago. Stud, fairly securely nestled in the Khe Sui Soi River valley and now being fortified by U.S. Seabees, has a good airstrip. Unlike Khe Sanh, it is outside the 17-mile reach of North Vietnamese artillery dug into the mountains...
...festive response. Some are down at the mouth because of the draft; others are simply at a loss as to what to do with themselves. One would imagine that after four arduous years of travaille the end of the academic moratorium would be greeted with a sense of rejoicing, relief, and ven liberation. Instead, I have become increasingly impressed with a muggy mood of despondence which hovers over this year's celebrations like a lazy mosquito: annoying, menacing, frustrating, and depressing...
From all appearances, he is in for a long wait. The campaign can point to some limited successes with the Administration. The Agriculture Department agreed to speed up food relief programs in 256 of the country's poorest counties. The Labor Department hurried a plan to create 100,000 new jobs. The Office of Economic Opportunity found $25 million more for the Head Start school program and emergency food and health care...