New Words Tranquil Sanctuary
Emaciated
Surge
Ascend
Enter Dr. Thomas A. Dooley
In 1956. Look Magazine named Thomas Dooley as one of the year's ten most outstanding men. Just
under thirty years of age at the time, Dr. Dooley had already distinguished himself by caring for a
half-million sick and emaciated Vietnamese refugees. When fighting broke out in the divided country
of Vietnam, the northern Communist Viet Minh forces surged southward, scattering thousands of
refugees before them. At the time. Dr. Dooley was a lieutenant, assigned to a tranquil naval hospital
in Yokosuka, Japan Forthwith he volunteered for duty on a navy ship that had been chosen to
transport the refugees to sanctuary in Saigon. The curtain was beginning to ascend on Dooley's real
career
Sentences
Use the new words in the following sentences:
1. The
residents of the Warsaw Ghetto managed to win several skirmishes
from the Nazis.
2. A firecracker terminated the
climate of the neighborhood.
3. When Richard III violated the
of the church to seize the princes, he
exceeded his jurisdiction."
4. Chicago put its heaviest players up front, but they were helpless as the Giants' line
toward them
5. Inexorably the determined climber began to
the Himalayan peak.