Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical teams were rushed into Skoplje, army tank trucks brought in desperately needed fresh water, and volunteer workers signed up to help clear away the debris. At least 80% of Skoplje's buildings were destroyed or badly damaged, all utilities disrupted, and more than 100,000 people made homeless in a few seconds. By week's end 630 bodies had been recovered and nearby hospitals were crowded with 2,000 injured. As the Yugoslav government proclaimed a two-day mourning period for the victims, authorities estimated that the death toll may reach...
...wiggle for it. It's all part of a $1,000,000 movie contract that she signed with Howard Hughes in 1955. Hughes is out of the movies now, and Jane keeps busy running the Women's Adoption International Fund (WAIF), which has placed 11,000 homeless children since she founded it in 1954. But once in a while she slips back into harness. And she has not lost much of the old (38-24-36) Outlaw oomph. Poured into a gown for a three-week engagement in Las Vegas with Singers Connie Haines and Beryl Davis...
...times, 9,400,000 ethnic Germans were abruptly expelled from Communist Europe, snowed up in West Germany in tattered covered wagons and with empty rucksacks. After the Iron Curtain snapped shut, 3,600,000 more Germans made their way West and heightened the crisis. The new arrivals were penniless, homeless and embittered. In the immediate postwar days, West Germans themselves were not much better off. The fierce competition between natives and "aliens" for jobs or even a roof created an explosive climate of mutual recrimination. It seemed as if the shaky new democracy, digging out of the wreckage of Hitler...
...Christian Democrats and Socialists backed a unique 50% tax on all property that West Germans had managed to save through the war, in order to compensate refugees who had lost their possessions. A special Equalization of Burdens Bank granted thousands of low-credit business loans. Since virtually all were homeless, the East Germans were the chief beneficiaries of 6,500,000 new housing units built since...
...five days Agung belched death. At week's end the death toll stood at close to 1,200, and another 200,000 were left homeless. As survivors streamed into towns at the base of the mountain, many suffering third-degree burns from a trek over beds of smoldering ashes, Indonesia's President Sukarno declared all Bali a disaster area. There was little hope that Agung's fury was over. Experts in Djakarta predicted even more violent eruptions to come and ordered all residents to leave the area for at least two months...