Word: squalidity
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...Forgotten Village (Kline; Mayer-Burstyn) is a documentary film of integrity and beauty, the story of the triumph of modern medicine over an archaic female herb doctor in the squalid village of Santiago, high in the mountains of Mexico's centra! plateau. Its post-production history is the triumph of reason over the paleolithic prejudice of New York State's three-man-four-woman board of movie censors, who banned the picture because it was "indecent . . . inhuman...
...this squalid town, which thousands of men in the next four years would die to gain or lose, there was a chill of fear in 1860, a feeling that democracy had reached the end of its rope. A revolution - secession - was under way. "It was unique among revolutions only in its impunity. Southern Senators and Representatives made no secret of their disloyalty...
...love she bartered with lonely Roman warriors. How long she and Mark Antony lingered in Paraetonium (now Mersa Matruh) history has forgotten. The city crackled in the sun, crumbled into decay, remained virtually forgotten some 2,000 years until last week another Roman warrior sought to enter its now squalid streets. He was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...
...Eire Italian confectionaries were emptied. In Glasgow students threatened resident Italians. In London the squalid, Italianate Soho district was a scene of riot...
...Squalid, squatty towns appalled Mrs. Roosevelt ("At one place I saw a water pipe line next to a privy"). She judged planned private camps for Okies to be somewhat better, Government camps, with sheet-metal huts and neatly ordered community laundries, recreation halls and self-governing councils, best of all. But in none of these stopgaps, said she, lay a solution to California's problem ("We must get these people back on land that they own"). A reporter asked whether, having seen the Okies, she thought that Novelist John Steinbeck had exaggerated. "I have never believed that The Grapes...