Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students walked two days without water. They were told they were going to Mozambique to become nurses, doctors or teachers for the struggle. The second night the girl and two companions slipped away. "We kept running the whole night and the next day. We were afraid they would come after us and kill us." They walked for two weeks until they arrived in Salisbury, still in pajamas. "People were laughing at me because they thought I was crazy. A European [white] woman stopped me and asked why I was wearing a nightie in town. That was the first time...
...with the guerrillas was very threatening," he recalls. "Later they would relax and sit down and talk. Your relations with them depended on whether they had found out anything bad about you. If they had, you would be shot. The first killings were private. Then they called in the whole village. Sometimes they would torture somebody in public; they had very long knives at the end of their guns. One day the guerrillas heard that someone had informed on a neighbor 14 years ago for stealing cattle from a European farm. The informant, an old man, was killed along with...
...Grassle, "we didn't believe it." But since that original bit of serendipity, during Alvin's probings of the earth's great undersea rift zones, scientists have convinced themselves the spectacular pink giants are no joke. Indeed, the odd creatures have, so to speak, opened a whole new can of worms...
...What most concerns me is that the recommendations would not be acceptable to the Harvard community as a whole," Peter A. Dale, Adams House senior tutor and a member of the race relations committee formed by Epps said yesterday...
...social sciences in China are not the same as they are here. Whole categories are left out," Roy M. Hofheinz, professor of Government and director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said yesterday...