Word: shelterless
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...quake fissures to get rid of them. Their water mains and pumping stations smashed, many parched survivors scooped their drinks from dirty ditches and contaminated wells. Puckish and unsated, the elements drove icy winds down from the Andes, and on the winds rode storm clouds which dropped on the shelterless, part-injured, part-naked, part-diseased population one of the most violent rainstorms Chile has ever...
Swift to send aid were the British, French and Italian governments, all of which despatched war vessels with supplies for the 10,000 Corinthians who are now homeless, shelterless. Swifter still came the succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...