Word: dirt-poor
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...article reporting the project, described his achievement this way: "A poor farm boy by birth, an engineer by profession and a passionate apostle of black self-help by virtue of his own experience, Evans has accomplished the remarkable feat by searching the back country of the Deep South for dirt-poor but talented black high-school students who were unaware that institutions like Harvard, Dartmouth and Amherst are urgently seeking youngsters precisely like them...
...boom has speckled the Spanish sunshine with clouds that López Rodó's planners had not counted on. The country is counting the cost of rapid urbanization. Hopeful peasants are forsaking such dirt-poor regions as Andalusia or Estremadura for the industrial cities, where there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa...
Ling, who had made it out of dirt-poor Oklahoma roots to build a successful electronics company, had enough vision for everybody. Other men had swapped complex packages of securities in their companies to stitch together glorious empires. Ling could do all that and make it sound different and better. When making presentations to potential merger partners, he would take a piece of chalk or a felt pen and sketch marvelous projections of future earnings. He sounded like a cross between an evangelist and Univac. Not even the financial experts fully grasped how Ling intended to meet his predictions...
...peak in the toe of the Italian boot, were hardly your average weekend motorists. Noting the stream of big cars -Pëugeots, Mercedes and Citröens-a cruising carabiniere radioed his suspicions to Police Chief Alberto Sabatino in nearby Reggio di Calabria, capital of dirt-poor Calabria province. Chief Sabatino agreed that such a caravan could mean only one thing...
...Europe and the U.S., Latin America and the Middle East, dirt-poor farmers and peasants whose forebears never dreamed of leaving the land are trekking to cities by the millions. Instead of finding the promised good life and good pay, most of them end up in a demoralized, debt-ridden limbo of menial jobs and ghetto housing. This contemporary demographic disaster is the subject of Voyage of Silence, a somber documentation of a Portuguese peasant's emigration to France. Produced by Philippe de Broca-a new wave filmmaker best known for frothy fantasy (That Man from Rio, The Five...