Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Written in hot protest over the plight of Europe's homeless Jews, A Flag Is Born paints their present sufferings, relights their gorgeous Biblical past, lashes out at the "strong Jews, rich Jews, high-up Jews" who stood by in frightened silence, excoriates the British, breaks off on an inflammatory note of armed resistance...
Deflation. In Teaneck, N.J., homeless Fireman Fred Fadar heard the town council would sell a six-room house if the buyer would move it, bid $1 just for the laugh, learned the house...
Nazi persecutions and continuing anti-Semitism in Europe (particularly Poland) have swelled the stream of migration far beyond the dreams of World War I Zionists. About 400,000 homeless Jews who survived Hitler's crematories and death squads (about six million were killed during the war) want to leave Europe, and most of them want to go to Palestine. Wretched Arab Fellahin, the peasant workers, have angrily watched their landlords sell Arab lands to the Jews at inflated prices. This meant even fewer poor acres for the impoverished Arabs. The Arab landlords and princes have angrily watched the Jews...
Rioting Moslems went after Hindus with guns, knives and clubs, looted shops, stoned newspaper offices, set fire to Calcutta's British business district. Hindus retaliated by firing Moslem mosques and miles of Moslem slums. Thousands of homeless families roamed the city in search of safety and food (most markets had been pilfered or closed). Police blotters were filled with stories of women raped, mutilated and burned alive. Indian police, backed by British Spitfire scouting planes and armored cars, battled mobs of both factions. Cried Hindu Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (who is trying to form an interim government despite the Moslems...
...week's end, the Dominican Republic still shook. On the hills, refugees huddled under trees and in caves. Up to 73 had been killed; 20,000 were homeless. Next to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo himself, Dominicans had not known such disaster since 1930, when a hurricane swept the republic. Then, says an official biography, Trujillo appeased the angry weather gods. But now he was apparently too busy with politics (see below...