Word: effort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worldwide effort to save the Cambodian people from mass starvation continued to gather steam last week. A group of Western nations asked U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to declare the sprawling refugee camps along the Thai border to be internationally supervised "safe havens," protected by the force of world opinion. Private relief efforts were also gathering momentum. On the day after Thanksgiving a DC-8 cargo plane carrying $1.5 million worth of canned meat, baby formula, antibiotics and other supplies landed at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport. It had been chartered by Operation California, an organization headed...
Responding to international appeals, the radical Marxist regime of Viet Nam's ally President Heng Samrin has finally modified its rhetoric about the relief effort. It no longer denounces the effort as a veiled attempt to assist the 20,000 to 30,000 Khmer Rouge guerrillas still fighting the Vietnamese invasion...
Individual Harvard players played well in spots, but the team never mustered a concerted effort. Point guard Ann Scannell, for instance, scored all of her eight points during a brilliant burst near the game's end after failing to dent the formidable UNH defense for the entire first half...
...fact, the Crimson effort as a whole lacked any sign of spirit. The hoopsters let a team that slipped past them by three points last season dictate the game's pace and style from beginning to end. If the cagers plan to finish respectably in the Ivies, they will have to raise their level of play several notches, beginning this Saturday against UPenn...
Snow seared the eyes, swelling them, making it an effort just to see. The boredom and the weight of every step exhausted him. For a moment, Justin thought he saw the sun. Then he saw sand...