Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their primary job is to develop a community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than two hundred dollars a day, a third of which they spend on water, hosed into mud-caked ash cans from...
...Antonio, where the Johnsons were married in 1934, she turned on a new scenic lighting system for the San Antonio River, then floated down the illuminated water on a barge while crowds lined the banks and local songsters serenaded her from bridges and landings. Lady Bird cited San Antonio as a model for the beautification and preservation efforts of other American cities. "Here is a great example of what can be done," she said. "It says to every city-look around and find the individual charm, the bounty of nature, the heritage of the past with which to rebuild...
Eliot house rooms are unusually large and vary in views from the scenic MBTA yards to the oily Charles. The library is big, comfortable, and well-stocked...
...first to instill a more humanized philosophy. He stimulated better-looking public housing by instigating awards for design. He improved relocation policies by increasing funds available to help small businessmen displaced by urban renewal. He saw to it that the Housing Act of 1961 included grants for recreational and scenic open-space areas. And he pushed through in that bill controversial Section 221d3, which gives nonprofit corporations cut-rate (31%) mortgage loans at the Treasury's expense to provide housing for displaced families of low or moderate incomes...
...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...