Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need no further evidence on Cambodia. American warplanes are hitting Cambodia heavily--that much is beyond dispute. The Administration can quibble over the number of screaming children and homeless villagers, but Nixon has not attempted to evade the central question. The extent of his war crimes awaits further documentation--the crimes themselves are indisputably becoming a part of Cambodia's history...
...lively obsession for the American idiomatic phrase. In the heyday of baseball -- the twenties, the thirties, the forties -- Smitty had written a column entitled "One Man's Opinion" for the Finest Family Newspapers chain. He covered the Patriot League, and most particularly the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless team in the history of the game, and later found to be infested with Communists. At the time that Smitty is writing from the Old Folks' Home, all of the above organizations are defunct -- treated as if they never existed, in fact -- and Word sets about reviving them in print...
...this spring, heavy rains have sent the Mississippi spilling across 10.4 million acres, leaving 30 people dead, 30,000 homeless and damages estimated at $193 million. In a Midwestern repetition of last spring's disastrous East Coast floods, boats, rafts and Army trucks evacuated parents, children, even goldfish and family refrigerators...
Some are dedicated to helping the homeless and crippled; others are seeking the fast and easy buck. Army deserters run bars in the coastal cities; honorably discharged veterans turn in their O.D.s for saffron robes and study to become Buddhist monks. Some of the American expatriates are fleeing broken marriages; others simply prefer the style and pace of life in Viet Nam to the rat race back home. Whatever their reasons, it is clear that the "yellow sickness" has now claimed its share of Americans. A sampling...
Secondly, there is the peculiarly intellectual quality of the game, with its geometric layout and its deep well of tradition. Philip Roth, whose new book The Great American Novel concerns the fortunes of a homeless baseball team, recalls: "Not until I got to college and was introduced to literature did I find anything with a comparable emotional atmosphere and as strong an esthetic appeal baseball, with its longeurs and thrills, its spaciousness . . . its peculiarly hypnotic tedium, its heroics, its nuances, its 'characters,' its language, and its mythic sense of itself, was the literature of my boyhood...