Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missionaries had their hands bound and were trucked to a "reeducation camp" being used to interrogate South Vietnamese prisoners of war. For five weeks the missionaries lived in the camp's leaky huts and tried to cope with hordes of snakes and scorpions. Although there was sufficient rice, there was little else to eat, and most of the prisoners lost 20 Ibs. or more; eight of the 14 contracted malaria. "Our captors were very edgy," recalls Mrs. Lillian Phillips, a member of the Christian Missionary Alliance who was captured along with her husband Richard. "But there was no brutality...
...Rice Scores...
...freshman Jim Rice scored the game-winner at 28:29 of the second half on a cross from Dave Sarachan...
...basic arithmetic but lag later in geometry and exercises dealing with measurement. Strangely, though girls can match boys in arithmetic and are better than boys at reading, they do worse on "word problems" involving simple computations, such as determining the lowest per-ounce price for a box of rice...
...Rice says he feels the Rhodes is not discriminatory--that in fact "it's made a significant if narrow contribution to upward mobility," at least for individual members of minority groups...