Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual observer, the heavy snow, gale winds and high tides that struck most of the Northeast last week seemed to have turned Rhode Island into a disaster area. Like homeless refugees, long lines of crying children clinging to their parents snaked through the gloom. But it was not the storm that turned out the Sunday crowds. Rhode Island was engaged in a well-planned exercise in preventive medicine...
...jousting for the weekend's game against Brown. Students at New York's Fordham University studied by car lights; a Springfield, Vt., barber finished cutting a customer's hair when an obliging motorist focused his car on the barbershop's front window; in New York's Pennsylvania Station, homeless commuters sacked out in the glow of two Volkswagens' headlights...
...vastly better to most Americans than the flawed society often pictured by Lyndon Johnson in support of his legislative program. At times during the 1964 campaign-and even since-L.B.J. sounded as if he had been handed an old F.D.R. speech by mistake: People were hungry, old folk homeless, farms drying up; children were going without schooling, grownups without jobs...
Early last week the Pakistanis mounted a counteroffensive and drove the Indians back to the border. Some hungry, homeless inhabitants returned to Kasur, but now death rained down from the sky. On Sept. 14, Canberra bombers of the Indian Air Force blew up a two-block area with thousand-pound bombs and demolished a factory complex on the city's outskirts. Kasur was hit almost daily by Indian jets pumping 20-mm. shells into anything that moved. An estimated 1,200 dead lie buried in the ruins...
...girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass and timber. Sobbed one homeless house wife: "Everything is gone. I don't even have a pair of shoes...