Word: squalidity
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...latest enterprise of Union Carbide is located in a former liquor store on a street of squalid tenements and shops in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. Similarly, the famed IBM trademark now hangs proudly over what was once a fruit market in Harlem. Neither company is looking for new customers in those quarters. Instead, both are serving as sponsors of "street academies," a new kind of informal learning program designed to lure high school dropouts to education and, hope fully, on to college...
Personally, Denver Post Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant, 32, leans toward Nelson Rockefeller for President, but he has a funny way of showing it. In one of his cartoons, Rocky is pictured up in some squalid attic dolefully examining a pair of track shoes: To run or not to run? That is the question. In another cartoon, he is portrayed as a fox with a lopsided grin on his face nonchalantly padding up to Dick Nixon, who is seated smugly on a nag surrounded by a pack of dogs...
...Squalid Theories...
Edwin Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, emphasized the role of the teacher as an activist. He branded as a "morally squalid view" the theory that the schools should produce students with "saleable skills and techniques" to cope with today's complicated American society...
...most squalid public environment of the U.S.: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screechingclatter...