Word: squalidity
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This is Indian South America, land of the ancient Incas and Spanish conquistadores, whose 45 million descendants have always lived in mutually exclusive societies: the white Spanish minority that owns the wealth and the hopeless, anonymous Indian and half-breed majority that exists in squalid slums or labors on Andean haciendas. "In the sweep of all its history," says Belaúnde, "our land has been the theater of endless bloody struggles. And always there remained great gulfs between the conquerors and the conquered...
...want "communities with better recreation, better welfare workers, better housing, better law enforcement,less squalid surroundings, and an end to the Negro ghettos," he said...
...Squalid Campaign." Early in his first speech as Prime Minister, Harold Wilson expressed his regret that Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker, who was unseated in last month's general election, could not take part in the debate (he will probably be re-elected from a safe Labor constituency by year's end). Stung by chuckles from the Opposition benches, Wilson looked up from his notes and tore into a vitriolic attack on his predecessor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as well as on Peter Griffiths, the Tory candidate who defeated Gordon Walker at Smethwick, a Midlands industrial suburb that...
Over a rising storm of protest from the Opposition, Wilson declared that Griffiths had won Smethwick with "an utterly squalid campaign" based on racial prejudice. Charging that the Tories would bear "a lasting brand of shame" for Sir Alec's reluctance to condemn such tactics, Wilson shouted that Griffiths should "serve his term here as a parliamentary leper." After a shocked pause, surging, howling, gesticulating M.P.s from both sides of the House silenced Wilson for 15 tumultuous minutes. Never before had a new Prime Minister stirred such hostility in the Commons. Amid shouts of "Shame!" and "Disgraceful!" 25 Opposition...
...WOMAN. Man's inhumanity is the theme of this squalid but often hilarious Italian comedy about a punk promoter and his wife, a girl covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...