Word: pockmarks
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...continuing Republican onslaught against social spending threatens to fill even more cities with the blocks of rubble and zones of poverty that pockmark New York, Detroit, and other major metropolises. Unemployment in many hovers well over 10 per cent. Among Black city dwellers, it is unconscionably high--16.1 per cent overall and 42 per cent for Black teenagers. The $31 billion in budget cuts proposed by Stockman will only make those statistics worse, as job training programs, unemployment compensation, and large chunks of other welfare programs go by the boards...
...brutal actions of the American government can never be undone. To our everlasting shame, they remain woven into the fabric of history as vividly as the bomb craters that pockmark the Vietnamese landscape. Yet this week we can take one small step to acknowledge our responsibility, to make a gesture of friendship, to begin to move away from conflict and toward a growing community of mutual understanding...
Shot after shot in Strangers defies mental erasure: grey, panoramic views of Manhattan steaming like a witch's cauldron; two boys slugging it out in a hysteria of violence in one of those brick-strewn empty lots that pockmark the city like bomb craters; a woman's clothed and rigid body floating just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime...
...Szena Square only a rare pockmark remains. On the corner where the fighting was most savage, an old woman stands, basket in arm, selling hens. On the surface normalcy has returned. Grass and flowers now surround the tree where an AVH (secret police) colonel once hung. Gone from the parks and squares are the temporary graves of the Freedom Fighters. The Russians have made a tremendous effort to dress up the country. As a result, Hungary has been provided with the highest standard of living behind the Iron Curtain-the well-traveled say Budapest lives better than Moscow itself. Food...
Publicity & Psychology. The best explanation: 99% of the pox was produced by publicity and mass psychology. In city after city, careful study showed that most of the pockmarks were the result of normal damage-gravel, stones and other objects kicked up by a car ahead or blown by the wind. Glass experts pointed out that some of this damage might seem mysterious, because safety glass, hit by a piece of gravel, may suddenly develop a pockmark several hours later...