Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official count stood: 360 dead, 1,815 injured. Floating bits of human bodies dotted the harbor; the real toll may never be known. At least 50,000 were homeless. Insurance claims were $150,000,000, kept climbing...
...Osage Rivers were at alltime highs. The Mississippi burst through levees from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau, flooded a million acres. A 20-ft. wall of water cascaded over Illinois farmland when a levee crumpled. The placid Schuylkill spilled over its banks near Philadelphia. Twelve were dead, thousands homeless. Tornadoes, ripping through 14 states from South Carolina to Texas, killed 80, injured...
...night Allied military trucks chugged up the mountainside, began the evacuation of some 17,000 people. From San Sebastiano, Massi di Somma and Cercola, the homeless and their meager belongings were carted downslope to emergency shelter and food. In the lava-lit darkness, while grimy soldiers struggled to unsnarl traffic, an air raid alarm sounded. Men doused lights, but Vesuvius paid no heed...
...they have been cuckolded by 20 years of Fascism. Their food supplies are low. Typhus and a half-dozen other diseases follow in the wake of the Allied armies. And as the advance goes forward, more Italian cities are left in ruins, more civilians are killed, more are made homeless, more problems of rehabilitation pile...
...starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would be many added to the multitude of dead...