Word: squalor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labors were taking shape along the edge of Port-au-Prince's mountain-girt bay. The exposition with which Haitians hoped to crash the bigtime tourist business would be ready on time. A modern city bloomed on swamps where last year 15,000 Haitians lived in squalor. Between broad, flower-banked avenues stood half a dozen dazzling white official buildings that would serve later as government offices. Pavilions were rising for the U.N., the U.S., nine other countries...
...more tolerable place for the Negro to live. They argued that every attempt to build better segregated parks and schools was only perpetuating what they were fighting to end: Jim Crowism. It was probably a valid conclusion. Many white Southerners were working unselfishly to reduce the Negro's squalor, illiteracy and ill-health, to end his disenfranchisement and ease his fear of violence. Perhaps a majority of these same Southerners still insisted that segregation was an institution that must not be changed...
...weekly heap of dirty clothes is a problem that varying Harvard men solve in varying ways. Some carefully pack their laundry in neat cardboard cases, lug them down to the Post Office, and then spend weeks in squalor and grime waiting for the return mail. Other pile their clothes in the washbasin and alternately serub and sneeze until a dazzling brightness is attained. But most undergraduates shoulder or dispatch their wash to Cambridge laundries which charge up to $18 to fray cuffs off of shirtsleeves...
...Piazza Giudea, in the heart of Rome's ancient ghetto, where loyalties are fierce and memories are long, people still remember when Celeste di Porto was a quiet, intent little girl. Like other children in the ghetto, she grew up in garbage-strewn alleys, amid the antique squalor that sometimes breeds keen wits. She did well in school and read much. Said her aunt last week: "My God, once they start reading, it's all over...
...Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement of the sick mind and behind the walls of the world's indifference...