Word: squalidity
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That is high rent for a squalid neighborhood, but most of the tenants somehow scrape up the cash. They also take pride in keeping their new oasis tidy: the eight cans a day of "airmail"-garbage hurled out the window-have now shrunk to only one. To earn rapport with tenants accustomed to being disregarded, U.S. Gypsum assigned Salesman Warren Obey as fulltime project manager. "When Warren came here," says longtime tenant Zion R. Paige, "he had three strikes against him. He was white, he was with a big company, and he was telling a story. Everybody around here...
...poor. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin has condemned the campaign as "a bag of tricks." Professional Organizer Saul Alinsky has blistered it as "a prize piece of political pornography." There have been countless charges of nepotism, malfeasance and administrative fiddledeedee, of demeaning interagency squabbles in the capital and squalid scandals in the boondocks...
...frightened Napoleon himself almost as much as the Grand Alliance did. All through his reign they ridiculed, insulted and cheated him, and when he needed them most a number of them cynically betrayed him to his enemies. Of all modern dynasties, the Bonapartes were without doubt the most squalid...
...romantic history of Cannabis would include mention of the fanatic Moslem sect of Hashashins (or "Assassins")--who murdered under its influence--and of writers like Baudelaire, Dumas, and some of our contemporaries who have found in it creative inspiration. A less romantic history might chronicle the squalid introduction of Cannabis into the United States by Mexican immigrants and migrant laborers in the South...
Leaders of the front knew all too well what had happened. Said Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 57, the Liberals' candidate for President next May: "The traditional parties have lost contact with a certain sector of the population." He meant the thousands of excampesinos who squat in squalid shacks surrounding Bogota and Cartagena and have been growing restive under the lackluster rule of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia. During the campaign, Rojas drew enthusiastic crowds with his vivid lectures on economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar...