Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Petits Freres (both priests and lay brothers bear the same title) and 480 Petites Soeurs in groups of twos and threes in the poorest sections of wherever they happen to be. One room is always consecrated as a chapel, and an extra bed is reserved for a homeless visitor. Their uniform is the dress of the poor with a brown cross pinned to it. Their work is the most menial labor available to support them...
...front, this means only one thing, that the hapless platoon will soon be a cork abob in a sea of Russians. The platoon has small faith in its chances, but believes mesmerically in Corporal Steiner, who has assumed command from his wounded sergeant. Steiner is one of those incurably homeless men to whom gunpowder is oxygen, and war is a kind of inner peace. A maverick with a tongue like barbed wire, he is sloppy, insolent and broody, but a soldier's soldier when it counts, and a Svengali...
...Last year a total of 252,870 East Germans fled westward, among them 2,553 People's Policemen. So far this year, the escape traffic has been even higher: 18,828 in 1956's first 20 days. These are not East Germany's aged, tired and homeless; most are hard-working farmers and factory employees fleeing excessive work norms, or young men who want to escape the draft (the East German army was officially proclaimed last week). Among the latest batch seeking sanctuary in the West: three judges of the Communist courts, two professors, three senior government...
Early reports on the results of flood disasters always reckon the damage in terms of immediacy and emotion. The number of homeless and dead occupy the front pages of morning-after newspapers and find their way into radio bulletins. This initial reaction is natural, but when the waters recede, the real disaster will be primarily a financial one. Victims may escape with their lives, but, because they are uninsured, they will never recover from the economic effects of the floods...
...Houses. The Administration has already taken several such measures this fall. Qualified seniors have been allowed to live in private quarters, and three additional buildings, one of which is very well equipped, have been set aside to house the upper class overflow. Even the placing of temporarily homeless students on daybeds for a couple of weeks, bothersome as this may be to their hosts, is preferable to last year's remedy of putting them on cots in the Indoor Athletic Building...