Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cities still controlled by the Lon Nol government. Neither side appears strong enough to deliver a knockout blow, and many more statistics will certainly be added to the already ghastly five-year toll: 600,000 Cambodians killed or wounded and one-half of the 7 million population made into homeless refugees...
...RAVEN. 118 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Both by Joan Aiken. The author of that incomparable melodrama The Wolves of Willoughby Chase has two remarkably different books out this year, both splendid. Midnight Is a Place is a savage yet romantic tale about what befalls a boy and girl, suddenly homeless and penniless, in a terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters to salvage the tobacco for resale, while the boy stays alive scrounging...
...consider it an "atrocity" that 1.5 million Palestinians are living in refugee camps and that another 1.5 million are scattered round the world, homeless? In my opinion, Palestine has not died. It is living in the souls of her people (guerrillas and refugees, as well as men, women and children all over the world). The only thing Palestine has lost is its address...
...would think that the Israelis, more than anybody, would know what it is like to be homeless. Yet we see them turn a deaf ear to 3 million people whose land they have seized...
...this freedom to fall to our lot like some sudden, unexpected miracle that will occur without any effort on our part. We ourselves are doing nothing to gain this freedom. Never mind the old traditions of supporting people in political trouble, feeding the fugitive, sheltering the passportless or the homeless (we might lose our state-controlled jobs). Day after day, the Moscow intellectual labors conscientiously, sometimes even with talent, to strengthen the walls of the prison that contains...