Word: squalidity
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...Touraine, the province of France that is perhaps least regional and most national in feeling. His family had sizable social ambitions, most of them never satisfied. They tried to force their son to be a lawyer, but from the moment Balzac encountered the library of his boring, squalid boarding school, he was totally committed to the life of the imagination...
...drinking and sexual habits of opponents. Haldeman, as he told it on the Watergate stand, conceived himself and the President to be in a state of siege, with Communists and other monsters just outside the White House gates. His energy was devoted to identifying enemies and destroying them, leaking squalid accusations and encouraging dirty political tricks, violating Richard Nixon's public entreaties to turn back to "the spirit of '76." What an appalling picture of a place that once was a symbol of much of the best...
...visited Seoul last week, reports that people are well dressed and well fed, the shops bursting with goods of every description. In the past twelve years, the annual G.N.P. has soared from $95 to $300 per capita. Even in the poorer sections of the capital, such as the squalid shacks which cling precariously to steep hillsides, electric lights, radios and fans are common. A middle class of small entrepreneurs and professionals has emerged...
...more than 500,000 refugees generated in I Corps by last year's offensive, 365,000 remain in 79 squalid camps, most on the site of former...
...doubt if a majority of Congress would want to set impeachment in motion, but duty might lead Congress to do it." The majority of Democratic politicians, however, held their tongues and allowed the Republicans to fret and criticize in public. Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick had already called Watergate "squalid, disgraceful and inexcusable." Crosby S. Noyes, a moderately conservative columnist for the Washington Star-News, surprised the capital last week by predicting that "when Nixon realizes the extent to which his authority has been shattered by these events, he will resign...