Word: grittiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clothes and overalls, the 5,000 suburbanites-men, women and children-looked ready for weekend chores in house or garden. Instead, they were on their way to help thousands of New York City slum dwellers clean, repair, paint and decorate 43 of the city's grimiest, grittiest blocks. By nightfall, when residents gave their guests an outdoor buffet, the scabrous streets were conspicuously cleaner and perhaps a little more habitable, with balloons waving from fire escapes and pastels brightening alleyways...
...grittiest difficulties of a foreign aid chief lie in dealing with the aided countries themselves. When the U.S. started handing out economic aid to underdeveloped countries in the early 1950s, it seemed reasonable to hope that relatively small infusions of aid would lead to great strides of economic development, just as Marshall Plan aid was splendidly effective in helping to restore the war-battered economies of Western Europe. But economic development presupposes skills, motivations, ethical standards and discipline that are lacking in most underdeveloped countries. Accordingly, the results of economic aid have fallen far short of the early expectations...