Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only after I gave them some cigarettes did they loosen up and pose for pictures. Meanwhile, the thump of Vietnamese artillery could be heard in the distance." One bright spot in the week's tragic tableau was the harried efforts of international relief organizations in Thailand. "Their valiant work impressed me greatly," says Clark. "In two days, they miraculously transformed an open field into a camp with hospitals and kitchens." But what they can achieve seems small compared with the dimensions of the disaster. Sums up Clark, who has spent a total of twelve years in six foreign bureaus...
...tardy. Even people who really admire and sustain Carter believe he is hanging by a slender political thread. With a provident combination of luck, hard work and fervent prayer, the President may, in the words of a friend, "just make it" back into office...
...bright morning sun on Saturday, about 100 blacks and whites gathered for the anti-Klan march among the grimy brick duplexes in Greensboro's Morningside Manor housing project. Most of the demonstrators were dressed in jeans and blue work shirts; some wore hard hats. Suddenly a mustard-colored van and several cars pulled up. They were filled with Klansmen and supporters who shouted racial slurs. The marchers responded by beating on the cars with sticks...
From Crimson to Puritan, the seemingly small change of name should have dramatic results. But if by some freak chance conventional religious warfare does not work, we can turn to the strategy of John Norton, who, speaking of the Quakers in the 1600s, said, "madmen acting according the their fanatick passions are to be restrained with chaines, when they cannot be restrained otherwise...
Mayer, a 59-year-old nutrition specialist, lapsed into unconsciousness en route to Cambodia, where he was to work with the U.S. Congressional Women's Caucus to investigate and evaluate relief efforts there...