Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shouldn't a young man have safe relief from his strong urge to copulate? Why shouldn't young ladies have a few years of courtship-postponing those grim years of dishes and diapers...
What are these demands? One of them is our insistence on being a world power, an ambition that Europe's nations gave up, on the whole with relief, after World War II. Whatever our recent misgivings, we are still forced to play our global role by virtue of our strength, our wealth and our often dangerous but irrepressible sense of mission...
...Children. A large percentage of the victims were children lost in the swirling water. Relief workers who managed to reach one island with emergency supplies reported that the local population had no need for children's clothing; no children had survived...
Trickles of Relief. Unprotected and overpopulated, the region is a disaster waiting to happen. And disaster has struck repeatedly. An 1876 cyclone killed 200,000 in the Bay of Bengal, and no fewer than eight major cyclones hit the region in the 1960s. The Indian Ocean's cyclones-the equivalent of the Atlantic's hurricanes and the Pacific's typhoons-are gigantic tropical storms that act like outsize rotary engines, sucking up and circulating the moist air that hangs over the balmy waters of the Bay of Bengal. The heat energy released in this process energizes...
Almost a week passed before relief flights began to trickle food and medicine to the ravaged islands. On many islands, cholera and typhoid fever arrived several days in advance of government relief supplies...