Word: squalor
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...Gaza strip is an intolerable threat to their lives and lands. To the Egyptians patrolling its long salient of indefensible dunes, it remains a symbol of Arab defiance against unconfessed defeat. Behind the 20-inch-wide furrow that passes for its frontier, 219,000 Arab refugees squat in sandy squalor, existing only on U.N. charity and staring balefully across the border at the slopes now green with Israeli corn...
...English it comes out as a series of blurted phrases overloaded with sarcasm and exclamation points. It all seems as noisy as an Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby. But Novelist Verga tells his story with a superb eye for the beauty and squalor of his Sicilian village-its busybody priest scurrying among the decaying mansions and their decaying inhabitants, its restive peasantry caught up in their inept revolutions...
...unbelievable squalor of farm workers blights rural areas in a broad sweep from the Central Valley of California into the Deep South. While prosperous cotton farmers collect subsidies on their surplus fibre, they pay a wages must include these exempted workers, if their lofty statements have any foundation in principle. And with exemptions erased, Congress should vote wage floors that reflect the progress, rather than the inflation, of the national economy...
...wealth that pours up out of the ground here is used to improve almost every state but Zulia (this one); a drive through the oilfields will leave you appalled by the dirt, squalor and misery that is the lot of anyone not lucky enough to be employed by the oil companies...
They presented an unexpected problem. Though in other parts of the world hundreds of thousands of refugees had chosen to live in squalor and misery rather than live under Communism, few of the returned Greeks seemed happy to be back in their own country...