Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodestone. In Milwaukee, George C. Faust, 51, homeless and unable hold a job since leaving prison last September after a two-year burglary rap, broke a gas station window, stole nothing but called police and asked to be arrested for burglary, told the judge, who noted the penalty was one to ten years, "I'll take ten," got 2½ arrived at the state prison in Waupun in time for supper...
...uprooted social order. One of the Reds' earliest tactics, recalls Chiang, was to incite the poor of a village to loot before Communist agents burned down the house of the landlords; then they would let the fire spread to the houses of the poor, too, so that the homeless could be forced into the Red ranks. This is essentially what the Communists' vaunted promises of reform did to all China...
...found only 5% of Warsaw's prostitutes prospering, although his figures do not include "society ladies, presumptuous divorcees and widows with a nice flat and a telephone who are visited by introduction (cost of a night of love: 1,000 zlotys)." Of 310 "notorious prostitutes" interviewed, 106 were homeless. On cold and rainy nights they committed petty offenses "for the purpose of being arrested and obtaining at least a temporary roof over their heads, a warm nook and a spoonful of warm food...
Impudent Husbands. In the provinces the situation is worse. "Unfortunate women, who are homeless, covered with vermin and filth, are selling their bodies for 5 to 20 zlotys [a zloty is 25?]." Poverty has driven many husbands to encourage their wives to prostitute themselves, and Lastik complains of "their impudence and shamelessness" because "they are certain of immunity in Poland...
Climax of the action comes when mankind, up for judgment for the world's sin, turns against God as the guilty one, and sentences him to experience for himself the agony of a D.P., "homeless, hungry, thirsty, terrified of death," surrounded by misery and sickness, suffering even the death of his own child, and dying at last himself in pain and dishonor. The human judge duly condemns God "to the hellish journey of being a man," and the three Archangels leave to carry out the sentence...