crisis
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The city’s website describes the Crisis Response Team as “volunteers from all walks of life who provide immediate, on-scene, practical, and emotional support to survivors impacted by personal tragedies,” including homicides.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
Crisis strikes the kitchen when our forgotten, shelved-away ingredients teeter on the fine line between fresh and spoiled.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
"They see drones flying, they see missiles flying, and then we see instances where the ships get hit," said Gavin Lim, head of the Crisis Response Network for the Sailors' Society, a UK-based seafarers' charity.
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
Notice something else: The Bay of Pigs fiasco produced the Cuban Missile Crisis 18 months later, and only then a new stability.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
"For that brief and critical moment in time," one study of the Cuban Missile Crisis concluded, "history turned on the material provided by one man, Oleg Penkovsky."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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