Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What changed things was the Corpsmen's response to a fire that burned out a tenement three blocks north of ACT headquarters. The volunteers were on the scene shortly after the blaze began, bringing coffee and food for the firemen, first aid and clothing for those left homeless by the blaze. Later, the Corpsmen took up a collection of old clothing for the homeless; the contributions swamped the Corp's headquarters. The overflow had to be stored in a nearby armory where new contributions came in for days. Old women gave their favorite dresses; men on unemployment relief gave half...
...transcending it through his love for Lara. "You and I," Zhivago tells Lara, "are like Adam and Eve, the first two people who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with--and now at the end of it we are just as naked and homeless...
...actually believe that marriage "ruins a man." As a result, some 176,000 children were abandoned last year alone, left to become wards of the state or delinquents of the streets. The government's Venezuelan Children's Council spent $10 million last year to care for 96.000 homeless minors, 90% of them illegitimate. With too many mouths to feed, mothers in the backlands sometimes sell or give their daughters to the first man who comes along...
...Southeast Asia. In such a drive, the Chinese would be able to take advantage of anti-Indian feeling along the way, notably among the rebellious Nagas in East Assam, and in the border state of Sikkim. Reaching Calcutta, perhaps the world's most miserable city, where 125,000 homeless persons sleep on the streets each night, they would find readymade the strongest Communist organization in India. According to this theory, the Reds could set up a satellite regime in the Bay of Bengal and, without going any farther with their armies, wait for the rest of India to splinter...
...dawn, the Barcelona area looked as if it had been sacked. Corpses floated along the beaches. Thousands were homeless, and much of Barcelona's hard-worked industry lay in ruins. The tornado's human toll: 500 dead, 400 missing...