Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buckingham Palace with his wife, Valerie Hobson. The former Secretary of State for War had come to accept the Queen's thanks and investiture as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work with ex-addicts, alcoholics and London's homeless...
...decades, the rest of America and the world expected the Big Apple to be the prime source of sustenance for the poor, homeless, huddled masses. Now, because it's gone broke trying to fulfill the American dream for so many, we turn our backs...
...situation in a Bronx accent: "My father I don't know since I'm six years old. He's in the army...My mother gave me a little money and told me to go hang myself or commit suicide." Later on in the emergency interview--they're broke and homeless--the woman says the man is married. "You say he's married?" asks the interviewer. "No. She doesn't know what she's talking about." The man lights up a cigarette. And the woman leans over telling him a couple of times "I don't know what I'm sayin...
...death toll was not limited to Lice. Landslides and other side effects that were set off by the earthquake killed at least another 1,000 in dozens of nearby hillside villages. An estimated 30,000 inhabitants of this remote southeastern farm region have been left homeless, and about 3,000 injuries have been reported...
...many, the nearest refuge is South West Africa (Namibia), the huge territory administered by South Africa. When South African officials recently opened up one border post in South West Africa, they were confronted with a convoy of nearly 3,000 vehicles carrying about 10,000 homeless Portuguese. In all, perhaps 20,000 have so far crossed the border into South West Africa...