Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From across the rivers would roll contraptions for clearing roads-bulldozers, road scrapers, clamshell scoops, cranes resembling prehistoric monsters-to try to cope somehow with history's biggest pile of rubble. Medical squads would treat the maimed and the burned, administer blood, try to save the thousands of victims of shock, who would die within a few hours if they were untended...
...part of two rival blocs. Then he took direct issue with Tandon on Pakistan. Nehru's resolution said: "Whatever disputes and conflicts may exist now or may arise in the future between India and Pakistan, they should be considered as political problems between two countries and should be treated as such. In no event should communalism or the misuse of religion be allowed to mar and distort consideration of our internal problems. We cannot forsake our own policy in a spirit of retaliation. We have not only to treat our minorities with full justice and fairness, but should make...
...statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...
...previous record in Korea was poor in promoting these guarantees. We must convince the people of Korea that we are prepared to treat them as equals in the solution of our common problem...
...captive animal happy, says Dr. Hediger, is to study its natural life in the wild. In many species the strongest psychological need is for a "home": a place of concealment and privacy where it can feel safe. The home must be surrounded by a "territory" which the animal can treat as its private property. In nature the animal may range over a large area, but it does so only to seek food, not for love of ranging. In a zoo, where food is provided, it is often content with only a small territory. It judges this area by its food...