Word: squalorous
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Nero Congress. There was some justification for the President's pique. Johnson knows only too well that the commission's imaginative recommendations for eradicating the squalor of the ghettos will seem intimidatingly ambitious to the penny-pinching 90th Congress. New York City's Mayor John Lindsay, vice chairman of the commission, warned that "the cost figure is relatively unimportant in terms of what we have to do in or der to save this country from the possibility of chaos." Nonetheless, with the Viet Nam war taking more than $2 billion monthly, Congress is in no mood...
...same kind of joy and spontaneity springs from the market places, despite the squalor, the smell, and the flies. On market day, the people rise before dawn to assemble their wares and carry them, in great bundles on their heads, to the villages. The market place becomes a meeting place where people find their friends, catch up on the news, and exchange their goods. They will bargain furiously over prices, not so much out of bitterness as with an exuberant sense of play...
...refugees is an enormous one because most of the refugees come from the farm. They are peasants who made their living by tilling the land. What they've done was to flee to the cities, where they live in squatters villages surrounding the cities. Many of them in squalor, even the best of them providing nothing but a single room in a mud walled hut, the best perhaps with tin roofs. The others are in much worse shape. There is very little in the way of sanitary facilities, and there is no room whatsoever for these men to provide...
...apartment houses, low income "221d3" apartment houses were built; literally hundreds of individual rehabilitation jobs have been completed or are underway; a new YMCA, a new Boys' Club, a new community shopping center, and many other improvements in Washington Park have been built where formerly there existed only squalor and hopelessness. This is not to say we have done enough. But we made a start in 1960 and we are a long way along the road in 1967. Where might we have been if we had waited until 1967 to start...
...does to funny money. The man who has sold the most novels is Erie Stanley Gardner-159 million copies of 125 titles. At least he is a highly competent mystery craftsman. The author who has sold the most in single-copy titles is the semiliterate fantasist of violence and squalor, Mickey Spillane, who has written seven novels that have never sold less than 4,000,000 copies apiece...