Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitch of horror that made the Indian Mutiny of 1857 look like a mere street brawl. In two weeks, between 40,000 and 150,000 people had been killed in the Punjab. Most of the bodies were too hacked and charred to be recognized. At least a million were homeless...
...Plans. For the homeless, crippled refugees, no one had anticipated relief measures. In New Delhi a penniless Hindu woman from the West Punjab clutched her two children, told of her husband's murder by Moslems. "Don't ask her about her plans," cautioned a welfare official, "she hasn't any and neither have...
...Ottumwa, la., at least seven people were killed and 16,000 made homeless when the rain-choked Des Moines River burst its banks. Flash floods in Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri and Oregon killed six people and sent refugees fleeing for high ground. Near Rutland, Vt., an over taxed power dam burst, left 500 homeless, 18,000 without light, drinking water...
...charm as a rivet . . . able, dramatic . . . a man who will never try to steal second unless the pitcher breaks his leg." Taft is an amalgam of "brain power . . . sincerity . . . majestic wrongheadedness . . . Brobdingnagian bad judgments." Gunther on Bricker: "Intellectually he is like interstellar space-a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés." Gunther finds U.S. public life full of "poltroons, chiselers, parvenus . . . politicians bloated with intellectual edema." But after all, he says, the U.S. is the "craziest, most dangerous, least stable, most spectacular, least grownup, and most powerful and magnificent nation ever known...
...uncertain light of car headlights and flashlights, in the drenching rain, in the flickering light of the fires which broke out, Woodward's citizens tore at the debris of their shattered homes, looking for wives, children, husbands. One-third of the town had been destroyed. Three thousand were homeless. Mrs. Grim and 90 others were dead...