Word: squalidity
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Faced with living conditions such as these, it is not surprising that one of the primary goals of the Portuguese is the purchase of a home of their own. As soon as possible, Portuguese families begin saving money to move away from the squalid living conditions they are forced to endure in neighborhoods like East Cambridge...
...recklessly ignored Oscar Wilde's advice: "A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies." In the darkest days of the Hitler war, Bevan accused Churchill of "petrified adolescence." (The patrician Prime Minister, in the course of their 26-year feud, called Bevan a "squalid nuisance" and later "Minister of Disease.") In one of the worst gaffes of his career, Bevan denounced Conservatives-presumably, all 8,093,858 Britons who had voted the Tory ticket in 1945-as "lower than vermin." Nor were his own leaders spared Nye's spiced tongue. He thought of his Prime...
...finds other possibilities. The interim-state solution would bring new hope in one's own life time." Even the extremists realize that the people most directly concerned are those who live on the West Bank and those who have lived for up to 25 years in squalid refugee camps. These Palestinians, some 2,000,000 in all, may decide to bypass the commando organizations and accept the offer of a Palestinian state. Jordan's King Hussein has offered to hold a plebiscite in the West Bank on the future political status of the Palestinians. "These are the people...
...wrinkled old Tuareg looked out across the windblown desert surrounding the squalid refugee camp near the Niger capital of Niamey, where he and 5,000 others now live. "This year," he said it was the animals that died. Most of us managed to survive. But next year, unless Allah is most merciful, it will be our turn...
...opinion of Pablo Casals? I have no opinion, only profound respect and joyful admiration for a man whose art, for all its impetuousness, is allied to a rigid refusal to compromise with wrong, with anything that is morally squalid or offensive to justice. --Thomas Mann...