Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diamond Thought. On a white horse, wearing a green dress and her bronze knee-length hair done up in thick braids, Maud Gonne rode into Donegal, where the British battering rams had made a thousand people homeless. She organized resistance meetings, put hope into the peasants, fear into landlords' agents. Once, riding through a mountain glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame...
...foundation's program will be a supplement to the vast, basic job of relief and reconstruction to be carried on in Korea by U.N. and the U.S. Government. For example, it will promote shelters and orphanages for homeless children (15,000 are wandering, begging and pilfering in the streets of Seoul, Pusan and other cities), more hospital beds for advanced T.B. sufferers (an estimated 2.5% of the population), institutions for widows and the aged, services for the physically handicapped (there are some 15,000 amputees), repair of schools, and other "creative, productive projects," that will lessen Korean dependency...
...Homeless ticks drifting slowly toward the smell of food are rather pathetic creatures, but once they have pushed their barbed beaks deep into blood-rich flesh, they grow fat, conservative and greedy...
...artillery on the stalemated battlefront, the blue-grey ashes of prewar villages were being raked aside, raw pine uprights were being planted, and women & children were combing through the rice straw for thatching for new roofs. Of the 22 million people in South Korea, about a fourth are homeless. No matter how hard and hopefully they work they cannot soon replace their 600,000 destroyed homes, nor provide the 250,000 new dwellings necessary to shelter the refugees from the north...
...inundated in The Netherlands. The Dutch, who only two weeks ago had proudly renounced the need for any more U.S. economic aid, had been set back an estimated three years. Another 250,000 acres of farmland were flooded with salt water in England, and more than a million left homeless. But the worst North Sea storm in 250 years left in its wake, as well, some stirring sagas of heroism. One such was that of U.S. Airman 3rd Class Reis Leming, of Toppenish, Wash. Said one admiring Englishman last week: "If anybody ever deserved the bloody George Cross, he does...