Word: squalidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their first "popularly elected" President. To them he seems to have reverted to his former role as an imperious, provincial party boss. Indeed, many Russians view the contest between Yeltsin and Zyuganov not as a battle that pits reformist and reactionary forces against each other but as a squalid struggle between corrupt rival Communists...
Long before holing himself up in the Montana cabin, suitemates say Kaczynski lived in isolated and squalid conditions in Eliot...
...studied Greek: Studs Lonigan with brains. We did three hours of homework a night and drank too much beer on weekends. We hitchhiked or rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...
...Branko Japundja, 50, a wounded Serb farmer who left the hospital where he was recuperating and walked all night to escort his family from their frontline village, descended on Banja Luka after days on the road with little more than the clothes they wore. Thousands now live in the squalid, muddy "collection centers" that ring the town...
Today's advocates of the chain gang offer a much more sanitized scenario for its institution. But even without the squalid conditions and whippings, the spectre of back-breaking labor mandated by the state remains. It is the promise of that very labor that people such as Edwards use to press the chain gang's case; the new workforce can be turned to improving roads, public lands and other state infrastructure...