Word: squalidity
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...anthropology knows that if not for the civilizing influence of the prehistoric agrarian matriarchies, men would still be a race of rock-eating troglodytes. Women did not have to take men along with them on their evolutionary journey--they just as easily could have left them behind in their squalid caves with nary two flints to strike together...
...just trusted me with his biggest secret," Dean recalls. "Deep down, I knew Mitchell had played his best card. He was counting on my feeling for him, laying himself in my hands. Now I felt the razor edge between the squealer and the perjurer. I had never felt more squalid...
...Third World's case was made most passionately by World Bank President Robert S. McNamara. In a long address, McNamara spoke eloquently of a need for more aid to a largely unseen population of "severely deprived human beings struggling to survive in a set of squalid and degrading circumstances." McNamara urged wealthy countries to increase the World Bank's capital (presently about $40 billion) and annual lending capacity ($5.8 billion...
...larger rebellion of Moslem separatists. Though the N.P.A.'s armed strength may be no more than 2,000 to 3,000, its political activists, drawn largely from educated urban youths, are probably far more numerous. They have established effective, well-concealed cells in such places as the squalid squatter areas of Manila as well as among low-paid farm laborers...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. You may react like Warren Beatty, who was pissed at Altman for smothering all his lines with wilderness noise and human babble. Or the scenery may get to you--fog and snow turning into literal shrouds, raw timber buildings sitting squalid like open wounds in the woods. It's a movie that jello-quivers your mind--the death scenes just kinda fester up there afterwards, shake, rattle, and roll. Choose your poison...