Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead we have the rather straight-forward tale of Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn), divorcee and mother, who aspires to coach football in memory of her great father, The Football Coach. Of course, the only position available to her is at the nastiest school in a Chicago slum where armed guards patrol the hallways and the principal strolls with two dobermen pinchers at his side...
Other peculiarities cropped up. In the Manila dockside slum of Tondo, teachers at the Imelda Marcos Elementary School complained that they were being asked to recruit ten voters each for Marcos. Well before the voting began, Marcos operatives in northerly Quezon City were openly offering indigents money to fill out their ballots in advance...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--After two nights of wild rejoicing and mob retaliation against the hated secret police of the ousted Duvalier regime, life began returning to normal yesterday in this slum-ridden city of one million people...
...Wednesday the Cap Haitien warehouse of CARE, the U.S.-based relief organization, was stormed and looted by slum dwellers. They trampled three people to death, then fought over canisters of cooking oil and 100-lb. sacks of grain...
Tuesday morning, Jerry and the Scripture-Screamers toured the slum area of Tondo. "Hiya, fella," Falwell said, greeting a naked native in his spartan cardboard hut. He presented the man with a bullet-proof Bible and the Scripture-Screamers' recent album, "Welfare Queen." "If you pray hard, maybe you'll get a record player," he said...