Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we can find better people to help. Of the country's capacity to absorb this relatively small number of refugees there is no doubt. Of the country's capacity to recover from its orgy of grievance and self-pity, its striking out blindly at those who remind us of past errors, there is considerably more doubt...
...Joseph Battaglia, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference operation at Pendleton: "Unless there's a real surge of concern by the American people, we'll still be here this time next year. I think that in six months, there will be priests pleading with their parishes to remind them that refugees are languishing in the camps...
...whole way of imagining the world derives from a hope about human nature that is peculiarly and particularly American. If that view -along with the religious view that supported it-is now nearly as dead as the moon, it remains an aspiration that Americans cherish. Both to celebrate and remind, in this Bicentennial era, the Andrew Crispo gallery in New York is opening this week a major exhibition of Hicks' paintings, a collection of 37, about a third of his surviving works...
...temporary refuge for most of the Americans and Vietnamese evacuated from Saigon was the U.S.-administered island of Guam in the Western Pacific-"where America's day begins," as tourist brochures endlessly remind visitors. For thousands of Saigon evacuees, a curious mixture of delicate old Vietnamese ladies, Cholon Chinese, middle-aged American contractors and former Saigon bar girls, their days began last week at some extraordinary sites, among them: "Tin City," a neat compound of one-story barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, and Asan, a rusting, long-abandoned Seabee camp...
Sanford said the U.S. must now lead by example and not by military or economic discipline to "remind the world of the values of our own revolution...