Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rubenstein said she finds different women's problems because she works with poor families in Tennessee, in towns where religion and the extended family play an important role in supporting traditional sex roles...
...Vast Majority: A Journey to the World's Poor, Michael Harrington tries to come to terms with these inequities and contradictions. Harrington, the chairman and founder of the U.S. Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, is a well-known author and lecturer, and his The Other America (1962) opened the eyes of many Americans to the reality of continuing American poverty amid plenty. Harrington evidently hopes The Vast Majority will cause a similar American consciousness of global poverty...
...four young kids, none of whom looked very happy. They were all from the Boston area, all under 20, and all of them were on the way to Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago to report for four years enlistment in the Navy. Instantly I felt sorry for the poor guys; they had nothing better to do, no jobs, no money, and lots of brothers and sisters who needed their parents' attention more than they did. So we sat for a while, playing cards, smoking cigarettes and talking, when I discovered the real reason for my new friendships. There...
...Crimson's poor performance had few redeeming features, as even captain John Chipman, a Canadian junior Olympic sabreman, had a losing record, winning only five of 12 bouts. No Harvard fencer made the nine-man individual finals in his weapon and only one Crimson swordsman, sabreman Richard Gillette, escaped with an even 6-6 record...
Here's the story: Boy does not meet girl--boy already knows girl. She's poor; he's poor. Boy has a sister, who is appalled at his plan to marry the local bird-brain millionaress for her money. The sibling cherubs are truly in dire straits, having been evicted from their apartment, but are adjusting well to the street ("a nice policeman is acting as our butler"). Their problems are solved when Susie, the sister, falls in love with a chap disguised as a hobo, who is in fact about to inherit a swanky hotel. Also singing and dancing...