Word: squalore
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...more than a year the German people, living in squalor and rubble in their ruined cities, have faced nothingness. . . . We shrug our shoulders and say, 'They asked for it,' we are doing all we can to feed the bodies of this people...
...between Simla and New Delhi. All have realized the genuine desire of the Indian for liberty, but all have tried to build from the top, speaking of the establishment of ministries and legislatures and agencies, and overlooking, in their plans, proposals for pulling the average Indian out of the squalor and ignorance in which he now exists. Talk about India these days is inevitably concerned with the struggle for political fredom, disregarding the social condition upon which that liberty will be based...
Mother Cabrini and her six set to work in the New York slums. To support their first orphanage they begged their way through the squalor of Little Italy, later managed to set up a tiny, ill-equipped hospital for the Italian poor. Though funds came mostly in small change, Mother Cabrini's masterful will again & again overcame obstacles that seemed insuperable. For the next 28 years she traveled indefatigably, setting up schools, hospitals, orphanages and novitiates in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver and other U.S. cities...
...shouldered Jean-Paul Sartre, the latest lion from France's literary zoo, visited the U.S. last year, he swiftly developed a liking for such American commonplaces as the dry Martini, corned beef hash and chocolate ice cream. He also slowly developed an awed liking for bustling, noisy, overcrowded, squalor-spotted, ill-mannered New York City...
...16th Century. There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers. There are fantastically beautiful women . . . incompetent favorites . . . great men who are suddenly disgraced . . . insane extravagances . . . unexpected parsimony . . . enormous splendor, which is a sham . . . horrible squalor hidden behind the scenery . . . vast schemes abandoned because of some caprice . . . secrets which everybody knows and no one speaks of. There are even two or three honest advisers. These are the court fools, who speak the deepest wisdom in puns, lest they should be taken seriously. They grimace, and tear their...