Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain barriers, and danced disastrously across some of the island's most heavily populated areas. At Dame-Marie, floods and high winds killed 40; the towns of Jeremie and Aux Cayes were largely unroofed. The International Red Cross estimated that too people were dead and 100,000 homeless after the storm's brief passage. But Haiti foresaw as the storm's worst effect months of starvation for remote, hand-to-mouth villagers, whose subsistence crops of bananas and plantains were ruined...
Philosophy in the Rain. At midweek, Nehru collected an escort of Indian M.P.s and flew in an air force Dakota (DC-3) over the flood-devastated provinces of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. Hundreds had drowned; scores of thousands were homeless in an area almost the size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills...
Despite Peking's attempts to minimize the disaster, China's worst floods in a century have drowned hundreds, made tens of thousands homeless, and turned an area the size of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi into a quagmire of disaster where millions soon might starve (TIME...
...were spilling out across a region more than twice the size of Texas, where 160 millions dwell and half of China's rice crop is grown. Peking admitted that the floods surpassed China's Yangtze tragedy of 1931, when 140,000 were drowned and 10 million made homeless...
Some 15,000 homeless people struggled out of the muck to the barren hills beyond; 39 were known dead, 90 were reported missing, and many unrecorded migrants were lost. Downriver at Laredo, the sullen, muddy river crested at 62.2 ft., a good 10 ft. higher than the previous record and 20 ft. higher than the International Bridge, which was swept away...