Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their Buddhist neighbors stay behind. But Red roadblocks make getting out difficult for the refugees. Families often have to break up in order to slip away individually, usually by roundabout paths or jungle streams. In Quinhon. where the refugees are arriving at the rate of 300 a day, the homeless receive food from Catholic chari ties and medical care from American Franciscan sisters-though disease is inevitable in the fetid shantytowns...
...electorate of this mighty nation is left homeless, then, by such a pair of nominees. It knows not where to turn. Our people are in a great dilemma, and there is no corner of the country which you may visit today where you do not feel this profoundly. We stare fascinated at the forces that have produced such a sterile choice for us: frustration and a federation of hostilities in one party; and in the other, behind a goodly façade, only a cynical manipulation of power...
...call its own, Hong Kong depends for most of its water on passing typhoons. A storm in May helped slightly, but the city's faucets were still dry except for four hours every other day. Then last week came Typhoon Ida, which tragically left five dead, thousands homeless, but pushed water storage in reservoirs up to triple last year's levels. The government felt so well off that it boosted the water schedule to an unheard-of eight hours...
Late one night, 200 of Alice's followers sacked 19 towns in an orgy of looting and slaughter. When dawn came, 75 lay dead behind them, 1,200 were homeless. Stunned by the massacre, Prime Minister Kaunda ordered a full-scale offensive against the fanatics, who were now outlawed by official decree. "I want Alice Lenshina dead or alive!" he cried, waving a black kerchief to a mourning throng. Next day government troops attacked two Lenshina strongholds, killing 81 hostile warriors. But of Alice there was no trace...
...loved ones, comparing experiences, recounting tales of tragedy and heroism. Soldiers with bayonets patrolled streets or baby-sat with begrimed children who had to be wheedled out of tears with jokes and C rations. Families fortunate enough to have heat, water or electricity opened their doors to the homeless. In the streets of the towns, volunteer workers joined military personnel in the unending job of picking up the pieces. In Seward a 30-ton fishing boat lay incongruously in a patch of woods several hundred yards from the shore. In the dockside railroad yard, a big switching engine rested...