Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tanzania, the journal of Frelimo (the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), editorialized: "The only language [Lisbon] understands is the language of force." The guerrillas obviously agreed. They killed nine persons last week in Mozambique, including an elderly white man whom they dragged from his farmhouse, and mined a train. Said Frelimo Leader Samora Machel: "There will be no peace and no end to the war before independence is achieved...
...Harvard in 1947 to study public health, and, after a year, returned to his village to apply community health measures he was sure would cut down the number of patients needing treatment for contagious diseases. But, before he could begin, the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, asked him to train other Africans in preventive medicine. He lectured there until...
...with the Whitbread Trophy to the delight of Winner Mark and Owner Queen Elizabeth, and the wifely acquiescence of Princess Anne, who placed fourth in the event. Mark had his defenders, however. Said Dorian Williams, a veteran equestrian and BBC commentator at Badminton: "The horse was pulling like a train throughout...
...freight train leavin' town...
...wear their status with the proper casual confidence. For Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken when he takes his family for an extended stay at the Rufus Arms, "the least pretentious and most expensive hotel in Lawnsmere," a pseudonymous Surrey town only a Times-crossword-puzzle by train from London. As Mark tells it in a sadder-but-wiser voice, the plan was to stash his family in the countryside while he commuted to the city to research a book about Sir Gordon Sandstone, a hero of the Boer...