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                    as in crisis
                                                
              
          
                                                      a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action                                       
              
                             made offers of aid to the refugees, and of asylum in extremity                         
                
                                                                                                                                                                          
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                    as in height
                                                
              
          
                                                      the most extreme or advanced point                                       
              
                             at its extremity the fever was actually life-threatening                         
                
                                                                                                                                
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