Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violent revolution. This confident prediction, which for more than a century inspired nearly all socialists with a dual certainty?their cause is just, their triumph inevitable?has been transformed into a new, often hollow orthodoxy. It is now bitterly distrusted among disillusioned socialists themselves and by new, ideologically homeless radicals...
...groves of the west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work. They arrive when the tomatoes, oranges, or onions are ripe and they leave at the end of the harvest. Because they are constantly on the move, migrant children receive inadequate, often fragmented educations. Homeless, helpless and poor, the migrant worker provides the back-breaking labor needed to harvest much of the food on America's tables...
...into Viet Nam and had looted and sacked its pagodas, schools and hospitals. Far worse, it accused the guerrillas of "raping, tearing fetuses from mothers' wombs, disemboweling adults and burning children alive." Were it not for the fact that thousands of helpless people have been killed or made homeless as a result of the fighting, the spectacle of a pair of rabidly Communist countries tearing at each other's throats, while professing the ideals of brotherhood, would have been called ludicrous...
...Harvard professors or Washington hucksters. Deger, better known as Bob the Bagman by those who frequent the Boston Commons or the Stone Soup Gallery in Boston's West End, was at one time a nuclear engineer for the federal government. Last week he died, 55 years old and homeless after roaming Boston for five years as a "street...
...ministries to meet every imaginable need. At the Fourth Street Inn restaurant, 55 volunteers offer low-pressure "witnessing" to paying customers and use the profits to offer lunch to anyone who is hungry, no questions asked. Upstairs, counselors are ready to chat. There is also a hostel for the homeless and a street ministry that trains young men to talk with troubled teenagers...