Word: squalidly
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...after three years of squalid isolation in Ramallah, Arafat finally won his freedom last Friday morning, aboard a Jordanian military helicopter that ferried him to Amman. From there he boarded a French Embraer jet bound for Paris. Arafat's aides insisted he wouldn't die in exile, but never has his fate seemed more precarious. In Washington, where Middle East hands have long joked that Arafat would outlive them all, officials say privately that the Palestinians may be about to lose the only leader they have ever known. "It looks like it's very serious," says a senior State Department...
Clearly, previous presidents—Democrats and Republicans—have played the same game. Harold Ickes, the deputy White House chief of staff under President Clinton, famously helped manage Clinton’s re-election campaign from inside the West Wing. But a squalid past is no excuse for a sordid future...
...religion is also terrible. These people whose faces I now watch in awe—I can't help thinking that their ancestors confined mine to squalid, unlivable ghettos, or watched in silence as the cattle cars rolled out towards Auschwitz. And there's no need to list the places in today's world where people continue to kill in the name...
These people today would be called enablers, and none was worse than his tempestuous Irish wife Caitlin, who was as much a drunk and a brawler as he was. In seaside towns in Wales and the bohemian precincts of London, they made do in squalid lodgings, haphazardly raising three children, bickering violently and competing in infidelity. Lycett suggests that the main cause of Thomas' self-destructiveness was his passionate, lethal co-dependency with Caitlin...
Vera abruptly sweeps Jack off to the drunken vortex of the Manhattan art world. Jack in turn persuades her to follow him south, first to Havana, then to squalid Port Mungo, on the coast of Honduras. Shabby sex and heavy drinking become the leitmotivs of their lives. Their elder daughter Peg grows up wild and uncombed...