Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacArd moved in the direction of an answer when he took passage to India at the turn of the 20th century. One walk through the squalid streets of Bombay was enough to convince him that the Indian way of life was no better than living death. India, he decided, needed the sort of inspiration that had made him and his country great: the go-getting zeal of the American way. His wife had been a devout Christian, so what better memorial ould he build than a gigantic missionary foundation devoted to the raising and training of businesslike Christian-Indian leaders...
...enforced: i) Israel withdraw to the area fixed in the U.N.'s 1947 partition plan (and surrender 2,370 square miles, more than 25% of Israel's total area); 2) Jerusalem must be internationalized; 3) Israel must allow the three-quarter million Palestine refugees, now living in squalid camps throughout the Middle East, to return to their homes. Actually, the Arabs are making no attempt to absorb the refugees, and the U.N. has pledged $250 million on their behalf, of which...
Through Nairobi's crowded Indian bazaars and squalid Negro quarter sped an ugly rumor: all Negro nursemaids had been ordered by the Mau Mau to murder white babies in their charge. The whites, hearing the rumor, took no chances. By train, by road and plane, hundreds of white children were sent to friends in Mombasa, 300 miles away on the Kenya coast. It was the tensest week since the Mau Mau emergency began. Nairobi's 16,000 whites were frankly awaiting a big Mau Mau attack. Probable Mau Mau Dday: April 8, when the court verdict on London...
...Lola is Hal Wallis' choice of Daniel Mann, the director of Sheba on Broadway, to film the screen version. Mann makes William Inge's portrait of frustration and wasted lives even more harrowing on film than it was on the stage. With few close-ups, the camera prowls the squalid little home of the Delaneys like a fascinated eavesdropper. It hides at the bottom of the stairs and catches the plump disarray of Lola as she wanders sleepily down to answer the door-bell; it watches the young boarder nuzzling her boy-friend; it peers across the room at Lola...
Girls in the Night (Universal-International) are all belles of New York's squalid Lower East Side: pretty Hannah (Patricia Hardy), brassy Georgia (Joyce Holden) and "ugly" Vera (Jacqueline Greene). Spurred on by jealousy of the other two girls, Vera tries to frame them for a murder committed by her boy friend (Don Gordon). At the fadeout, the real killer has been electrocuted on high-voltage wires after a helter-skelter chase along the waterfront, and things are looking rosier for Hannah, Georgia and their boy friends...