Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gift. Jack insisted, merely a friendly loan without note or collateral. But it just so happened that while Ungar was paying to have Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink, he was also seeking city approval of a $30 million slum clearance project-and Hulan Jack, as borough president, held the right of veto. Ungar's project got the green light until early last year, when newspapers identified would-be Slum Clearer Ungar as the owner of some of New York's worst slum housing; later he was denied project sponsorship, and Hulan Jack himself voted against...
Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Gary. An early (1940) Gary novel about an adolescent slum runner evacuated to the English countryside during the blitz, wryly and sympathetically written to show that "every ordinary child is by nature a delinquent...
Charley Brown is an undersized slum runner who is evacuated from London during World War II and sent with other refugees to a west-country village. At 13 or so, he has a good mind but a lousy head, and when his poll is shaved to free him from vermin, he acquires a cruel nickname. Gary was too sensible to suggest that all the boy's troubles begin when jeering ruffians call him "Lousy." But Charley tries harder than he might have done to win followers-by passing out candy and soda pop, then by stealing...