Word: squalorous
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...shocked that Eliza Wall, a well-bred, teen-age schoolgirl, should run after a one-eyed French Canadian kid named Claw Moreau, whose family was on town relief. At first, in school, she had been repulsed by his rude speech, the sinister black patch over his missing eye, the squalor of the wharfside shack where his husbandless mother carelessly raised her children, the fixed lines of bitterness which came from learning early that he was a social outcast. Later Eliza's fear became curiosity; and as she grew older, sympathy...
...people, living under appalling conditions, went to church during Easter week, they listened to music, not as the bourgeois Swiss or Americans listen to it, but as a source of escape from squalor and misery into the beauty that only music under such conditions can provide. All over Germany last week hungry, tired, confused little people were listening to the Passions according to Matthew and John of Bach crowding into unheated churches and into dark cathedrals with boarded windows. They began during mid-afternoon (so people could get home before the subways closed at 9:30) and continued as night...
Audisio's career began in the dirty northern industrial town of Alessandria, where he grew up in a squalor he swore to escape. He rose to the top of his class in school, got a job making Borsalino hats (which are to Stetsons what Isotta Fraschinis are to Oldsmobiles); during the depression he lived squalidly in a tiny apartment with his wife, a seamstress. He was arrested for Communist agitation and when he got out of jail after five years, things were even worse ("We lived on boiled milk and boiled potatoes...
Just look around you, Msgr. Sheen, at some of your Catholic countries-Mexico, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, etc., where ignorance, squalor, pogroms, ghettos, persecution and the Roman Catholic Church rule...
...Although inflation and food shortages have recently played into Communist hands, Communism finds its greatest asset in Latin America's feudal, low-pay, high-profit economy which keeps the people in squalor and ignorance...