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...white cousin's, and in some ways, better. But in the last century the Indian has suffered grievously: some 350,000, of a total Indian population of 400,000, live on barren reservations in grinding poverty, existing from hand to mouth in crowded, filthy huts with animals and vermin. The scourges that the white man has been most successful in suppressing are especially deadly for the Indian, e.g., diphtheria, tuberculosis, dysentery. Any Indian born today on a reservation has a life expectancy of only 36 years against a neighboring white child's 61. Half the deaths (and nearly...
...trees too have long been a breeding place for all manner of vermin, and I suggest that they be removed at an early date. Shade could still be provided by suspending plastic louvers from steel pylons, and a link with tradition maintained by scattering among them a few clay pigeons and stuffed squirrels. Gerald Robinson...
...strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll his rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened the Tories to "vermin," Nye got off to an impish start by likening the Tories to the biblical Gadarene swine. ("I would rather move in a herd," replied Tory Rab Butler last week, "than be a solitary, lonely and disgruntled...
...earliest memories is the look on hungry faces when the soup ran out. When she went to her first job at 15, she remembers her mother calling after her: ". . . And don't come home until you join the union!" Bessie early dedicated herself to getting Liverpool's vermin-ridden, shivering, shawl-clad women and gaunt men out of their slums and into decent dwelling places...
...Your picture of mothers hysterically egging on their children graphically shows the ignorant, savage cruelty that motivates them. I notice that Bryant Bowles also took a swipe at the Jews. Can it be that these vermin consider themselves Christians...