Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a year's fighting, 375,000 South Korean civilians are dead or missing, 125,000 more have been wounded. No one can be sure how many people were killed in North Korea. A least 6,000,000 Koreans, North and South, are homeless...
With the decline, of that department, the Wireless Club became homeless and slipped into virtual inactivity...
Early reports put the death toll at 1,000 to 2,000, but by week's end estimates were down to some 200 dead and 300 to 500 seriously injured.* The government's gravest problem was taking care of the thousands of homeless. Good neighbors pitched in; airborne supplies were dispatched from Panama (by the American Red Cross), Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico...
...brass band avoided the mortar-crumpled south gate and the shattered railway station where, on Children's Day as on all other days, the abandoned, the homeless, the orphans prowled restlessly, begging, stealing, conniving to stay alive. They screamed "chop-chop" (food) at G.I.s, hovered hungrily around the soldiers who uncomfortably ate their rations...
Most of the students in Geology are geologists. The rest are an amorphous gang of outdoor men, homeless physicists, Texans, and mountain-climbers...