Word: squalor
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Carlson produced affidavits indicating that native workers are often brutally beaten by farm superintendents and that most of them live in hideous squalor. They get sacks to wear in the fields and are fed cold porridge, occasionally with scraps of meat. At night workers are herded into rude shacks to sleep on filthy gunny sacks spread on cement floors. In some cases workers who die on the job are buried, without reports being made either to a doctor or police. "Africans sent to the farms firmly believe they have been 'sold' to farmers," Carlson charged. "Police and labor...
...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor, in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists. Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...
...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...
...British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors, who are themselves aware that service in such a post is proof of their personal failure. The natives live in age-old ignorance and squalor, the desert villages are outposts of pure savagery, and the rabble-rousing nationalists are free to work their political magic...
...backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could she end up in the squalor of Teheran?" A Vatican source said: "In the eyes of the church, the Shah is an infidel...