Word: squalidity
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...been a vast poorhouse. And World War II, which destroyed 28% of the south's already lagging industrial capacity (v. 18% in the north), seemed the final blow. Only 308 out of every 1,000 Mezzogiornisti held jobs (many for only 80 days yearly), and in scores of squalid piazze lounged hundreds of men young and old who had never had a day's work. Richer Mezzogiornisti lived four and five in a room; the poor inhabited caves, for in many villages there had been no new building for a century...
...colonials, started a bloody uprising and was put down. While the fires of civil war guttered out in the refugee-crowded streets of Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), a Vietnamese general, supported by French colonials, tried a midnight coup d'état and almost succeeded. Locked in this squalid conflict were the precarious hopes of Vietnamese nationalism, the ambitions of French colonials and the committed prestige of the U.S. Government...
...whole sordid episode should focus the public attention on the integrity and morality of those agencies presently in existence for the purpose of safeguarding the nation's security. "The FBI has known for years that Matusow was a squalid liar" says TIME . . . Our entire security program and the morality of the men who administer it, and the philosophy behind it, should be subjected to painstaking investigation and reappraisal. J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General Brownell should welcome such an examination...
Even as Matusow spoke, the Government was belatedly moving against him. He was ordered to appear before a federal grand jury in New York, and he was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. The FBI has known for years that Matusow was a squalid liar. Its failure to expose a false witness the Government had used played into the hands of the anti-anti-Communists who want the public to believe that all anti-Communist witnesses are perjurers. Even the Baltimore Sun editorialized that the Matusow case "reminds us that stool pigeons are as a class...
...accent that is obviously refined, is a startling change from the run of smoky film sirens and bumptious cuties. Said one Hollywood observer: "Most of these dames just suggest Kinsey statistics. But if a guy in a movie theater starts mooning about Grace, there could be nothing squalid about it; his wife would have to be made to understand that it was something fine-and bigger than all of them. Her peculiar talent, you might say, is that she inspires licit passion." From the day in 1951 when she walked into Director Fred Zinnemann's office wearing prim white...