Word: squalidity
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Unless Minister of Health Aneurin Bevin mended his ways, Churchill growled, "he would be as great a curse to this country in time of peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war." He called vegetarian Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade "a national disaster," cried that "these ethereal beings [vegetarians] do produce a very great volume of intellectual output with a minimum of working costs in fuel...
Then, when Albert was 40 and Josie-Lee 32, the U.S. went to war. They packed up and went to Memphis, Albert to work in a tire factory, Josie-Lee to a job in an aircraft plant. In two years they saved $3,000. But they lived in a squalid water front boarding house, saw little of each other or their children...
...broad, modern streets, planned after the 1923 earthquake as both thoroughfares and firebreaks, stretched emptily. The squalid, crooked back alleys, so planned three centuries ago by the Shogun Ieyasu for defensive fighting, no longer crawled with humanity...
...visitor to Orchilly, he found that Bernard was a tormented man. He could not forgive himself for having left China when the Japanese marched in. He was harrowed by the thought that his wife's mysterious illness was simply a means of preventing him from returning to the squalid Eastern life she detested, and he dreaded the day when he would have to choose between his duty to her and his vocation. And finally he saw that his children, Vaughan and Virginia, were becoming more & more skeptical of his religious teachings...
...Whistler v. Ruskin, it came a cropper in the private lives of most of its British disciples. Unlike their more adaptable, more original French contemporaries, who made Paris the authentic, though wicked, art center of the world, the Britons founded no school. They simply faded out in the squalid romanticism of the "Naughty Nineties." Oscar Wilde's brilliant career came to a catastrophic end in the world's most sensational vice trial. Poet Francis Thompson, an opium addict, was reduced to destitution, and died leaving behind his minor masterpiece of repentant self-martyrdom, The Hound of Heaven. Poet...