Word: beggarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shocking. Maria Montessori has never been anything else. As a girl, she shocked Roman society by going about the streets unchaperoned. She was a mathematical prodigy and wanted to be an engineer. But on the day she registered at the University of Rome, she came across a tattered beggar carrying a sickly child. Though she could never stand the sight of blood, Maria decided then & there to become a doctor. She was the first woman ever to receive an M.D. from the University of Rome...
Some of the slum families were consumptive, some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a professional beggar who always promised a prayer to her benefactors, explained with spirit: "Sure how could I say a prayer for each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like...
More than 1,500 Puerto Ricans arrived in the U.S. last week. The majority were beggar-poor, had no prospects of jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
After 20 months of chicanery, double-dealing and delay in granting their thrice-promised independence, Koreans surely have every right to expect better of us than this. Korea is a rich country, forced by power politics into a beggar's role. The division of its country, giving the industrial half to Russia and the agricultural half to the U.S., is impoverishing it. Our economic strangulation of south Korea is creating lasting bitterness. Democracy has not failed in Korea, for we have never given it any chance to operate there...