Word: barest
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Appointed pastor of Ile de la Tortue in 1947, Father Riou saw that the island's 12,000 inhabitants, living six miles from the mainland, had not even the barest medical facilities. On arrival he came across a peasant woman who, having given birth to twins, was cutting the umbilical cords with a machete. Riou opened a crude dispensary and was immediately swamped. He built a room with 15 floor mats on which the sick could lie. After returning to France for a fourth year of medical school to complete the training he had received as an army medic...
...more than five minutes in daytime appearances, with an outside limit of 20 minutes for an evening speech. Oftentimes people who have waited long wish there were more. Kennedy seems almost apologetic about keeping his audiences too long; he plunges directly to the issue at hand, with only the barest amenities for the local celebrities, and races quickly through to the end, discarding oratorical filigree as he goes...