Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squalid One." Winding up for the Opposition, Aneurin Bevan lashed out at the whole idea of forcing Nyasaland into a permanent federation with apartheid-minded Southern Rhodesia, and quoted some 1957 rhetoric by the Federation's Prime Minister Sir Roy Welen-sky to show what would happen if Britain tried to stand in Rhodesia's way. Sir Roy had said "I personally would never be prepared to accept that Rhodesians have less guts than the American colonists." Since the government had jailed Nyasa-land's African leader, Dr. Hastings Banda, Bevan challenged Lennox-Boyd "to mention anything...
...dawn. Boasted Thailand's boss. Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who has also closed down nightclubs, "massage parlors" and brothels: "From this day we can proudly claim that we are a civilized people. Gone will be those trying days when we were pilloried by the foreign press, which printed squalid pictures of opium addicts...
...defendants. Willion Collinswort, 23; Patrick Scarborough, 20; David Ervin Beagles, 18, and Ollie Stoutamire, 16, made up a sorry lot of delinquents, victims as well as products of their squalid environments. Collinsworth. an illiterate telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high...
...problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done." By 1952 Sam Shepard, a district director of education, headed 22 of the city's 130 still segregated grade schools. His charges: 13,000 students (only 1,000 of them whites) who live in the squalid middle of the city's sleaziest neighborhoods...
...wife (Edwige Feuillère) discreetly remonstrates; he brushes her off. The twippet cheats on him all the time; he overlooks it. When she announces that she is pregnant, he happily makes preparations to leave home, move in with his petite amie. The end is sudden, violent and squalid...