Word: hovel
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...angel voices-all, as usual, soprano, apparently on the theory that only girls are nice enough to be angels: he fancy-pants around with his camera in a ludicrous gilt-plaster palace that looks as if it were made of baroque-candy; and he ever-so-reverently overdresses his hovel scenes till they gloom and glow like cheap reproductions of Murillo...
Farm Boy. While his doctor, appalled by the leprosy, tuberculosis, syphilis and jaundice rates, watched anxiously, Lyndon back-patted his way through the village crowds. Entering a hovel where fly-covered dried fish and a few tins were on display, he quipped, "Is this the supermarket?" To every family accompanied by children, he announced proudly that he and Lady Bird have a couple of teen-age daughters back home. When the natives expressed their thanks for his visit, L.B.J. allowed, "This is communication like in the garment district in New York or in Johnson City, Texas...
...opening scenes were followed by startling juxtaposed flashes of irony. A flat-bed truck jammed with migrant families who were allowed to rest only every ten hours was compared to a cattle train, which by federal law has to stop for five of every 28 hours. A rat-infested hovel housing six was contrasted with a nearby $500,000 stable for race horses. And Murrow noted that while the Federal Government spends $6,500,000 annually to protect migratory wild life. Congress this year failed to appropriate $3,500,000 to educate migratory workers' children...
...favelas are the cats. And we are hungry." One time a favela woman knocked on a rich woman's door, Carolina recalls. "The senhora of the house told her to wait. Soon she returned with a wrapped package." The beggar woman carried the bundle back to her hovel and eagerly opened it. Inside were two dead rats...
...fundamental task at Bogota," said Dillon, "is to outline the route by which the peoples of the Americas can achieve the material progress they desire without any sacrifice of fundamental freedoms. We must bring fresh hope to the less privileged, help them to replace a hovel with a home, to acquire ownership of land." The Eisenhower plan is only "a first step. We expect to continue our support with new funds." He spoke directly to Schmidt's fears: The new social reform program is "in addition to, and not in substitution for, assistance for basic economic and industrial development...