Meaning of babylift | Babel Free

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The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.

Examples

“The second prong of my effort, Plan B, was to try to provide some help for the 2000 babylift children we had already brought to America.”

“There are ominous implications for babylift children in the story of Leigh Marsh, an adopted Korean child who lost eight years in the Connecticut public school system.”

“Over the next few weeks, on the Pan Am 747s and on military flights that followed, about 1,400 orphans rode the babylift to America.”

“They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use the babylift to give the C-5 publicity.”

“Holt speeded up its efforts when the end of the war became imminent but kept a distance from the babylift by refusing an offer to use military transport planes.”

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