Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roared for twelve hours, through block after block of tinder-like huts, cutting a swath a mile and a half long and half a mile wide through the refugee-packed city. The cost in casualties: three dead, scores injured, 2,800 buildings destroyed and more than 28,000 made homeless...
...soldier's younger brother has served reformatory sentences and is now in jail facing trial for armed robbery. His sister, 16, an inmate of an institution for homeless girls, is going blind from syphilis. His father died of cancer several years ago. His mother disappeared somewhere in the rabbit warren of flophouses in their city's Skid...
Frederika organized and personally supervised every detail of The Queen's Fund, a vast charity whose original object was to find food and shelter for the thousands of homeless children wandering lost in her land. Her impassioned pleas for her pet causes seldom fell on deaf ears. "If you could have a vote taken at this minute," said Wisconsin's Senator Wiley after hearing Frederika talk at dinner one night, "you would get the American aid to Greece doubled...
...island's toll: 39 dead, more than 100 injured, 4,000 homeless...
...helicopters in the hills; they evacuated the wounded and buried the dead. More food, drugs, clothing, even prefabricated houses were also on the way. From Germany, the U.S. airlifted three tons of blood plasma. The toll: some 600 islanders dead, 700 seriously injured, 4,000 hurt and 100,000 homeless...