Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrounding Kwangtung province, said Peking, 187 people were dead, 200,000 were homeless, and 2,000,000 acres of land had been inundated. The local battle cry, reported the New China News Agency last week, was: "Nobody drowns while there are members of the Communist Party around." But there was less cocky talk now of overpowering the God of Water...
Where have the homeless gone? Two places mainly: 1) into Algerian cities to swell urban slums, or 2) into "regroup-ment centers" under French army supervision. In either place they make a mockery-or else a very distant promise-of De Gaulle's historic Constantine pledge last November to Algerian Moslems of eventual parity with French standards of living...
...best-looking man in the neighborhood"--to whom the lame Gervaise has been informally married for seven years--runs off with another woman, leaving the destitute heroine with two children. At the end, with her legal husband--with whom she had spent a few happy years--dead, Gervaise is homeless and penniless, sitting dazed and sullen in a small...
Working through the night, Red Cross, Civil Defense, police and other rescue groups dug hundreds of survivors from the wreckage. By daylight the city turned a weary, sad eye on the results: 21 dead, more than 300 injured, 1,800 families left homeless, 1,725 buildings damaged. Total storm cost: $12 million...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 12--An army of 100 National Guardsmen joined in a battle of the sandbags today in West Terre Haute, next major target of an historic Wabash River flood, which already has left 1,500 Indiana families homeless. One death was reported...