Word: squalidity
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...Norseman plane landed last week in the Albany River where it empties into bleak James Bay. A man carrying a sheaf of papers went ashore with the pilot and walked toward a line of unpainted shacks and squalid tents on-the river bank. Huskies, chained to stakes around every dwelling, set up a howl. Ragged Indian children left their baseball game on the muskeg to crowd around the strangers...
...health authorities are not yet in a mood to cheer. Egypt's people, many living in squalid surroundings, undernourished and with no built-up resistance to cholera, may still get it. Wandering Bedouin may still carry the disease to neighboring countries. But except for a few scattered and well-watched cases outside the main area, by this week the epidemic seemed pretty well fenced in. Since the start, there have been only 1,050 proved cases, 674 deaths. Help is still arriving...
...ever smudged the pages of a Russian novel. They range from desperate male & female aristocrats, struggling frenziedly to retain their power and money, to hordes of sly, ice-hard usurers, pimps and blackmailers. The never-ending battle between these two groups is fought out in luxurious palaces, in squalid lodging houses, and cafés filled with the thick stench of "burned meat, restaurant napkins, and tobacco...
...distinctive bottles, travel was in state-controlled helicopters, scientific absolutism was the universal rule. People swallowed a tabloid of happiness when they felt blue, worshiped a mechanistic god named "Our Ford," and believed that sexual fidelity was obscene. Faced with the alternatives of being Utopian or regressing into a squalid primitivism, the unhappy hero of Brave New World chose to hang himself...
...what the speakers had said and in a sense it was true. Because of Missionary-Nurse Marie Schultze, a 49-year-old Presbyterian, 98% of the 8,000 babies survived the critical first five years of childhood. At her tiny, spotless Madre e Hijo Clinic in Santiago's squalid slums, she had given 20 years to prove that Chile's average infant mortality rate could be cut from 21.7% to less than 2%. For this, she became last fortnight the second woman* to receive the Chilean Government's highest decoration to foreigners: the Orden al Merito...