the Peace Corps
noun
: a U.S. organization that trains and sends people who work without pay to help poor people in other countries
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The building has a rooftop bar that will be called the Black Rooster, a throwback to the pub of the same name that opened in 1970 on the ground floor but shuttered just as the Peace Corps was preparing to move out.
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Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Friedman moved to Austin for college, joined the Peace Corps, moved to Borneo, then ended up in Nashville to write songs in the early Seventies.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024
With the Vietnam War still raging when Mr. Allman left the Peace Corps, he was hired by an English-language newspaper in Bangkok.
—Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 6 June 2024
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy launched the Peace Corps to support education, public health, and entrepreneurship around the world, building human connections and advancing local development projects.
—Bernie Sanders, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
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Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Friedman moved to Austin for college, joined the Peace Corps, moved to Borneo, then ended up in Nashville to write songs in the early Seventies.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024
With the Vietnam War still raging when Mr. Allman left the Peace Corps, he was hired by an English-language newspaper in Bangkok.
—Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 6 June 2024
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy launched the Peace Corps to support education, public health, and entrepreneurship around the world, building human connections and advancing local development projects.
—Bernie Sanders, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
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