Word: squalid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Based on the obscure, reconstructed facts of her life, the movie documents Silkwood's story vividly, drawing in its wake a stunning depletion of the squalid life in her southern Oklahoma town, and graphic details of routine abuses at a nuclear power plant. It successfully avoids over-romanticizing Silkwood's role as a pseudo-reactionary, instead presenting the material without a slant while filling the plot with amazing detail and brittle, yet good natured humor...
...Britain's dour Field Marshal Douglas Haig in World War I who confessed he never went to the front lest the squalid horror of trench warfare diminish his will to send armies to their death, an act he thought not only necessary but inviolable...
...from Lebanon almost two months ago. Equally resentful of the Marines' presence are the Shi'ite Muslims, who are also fighting for a greater share of political power. The recent sniping deaths of U.S. Marines are believed to have been the work of Shi'ites who live in the squalid neighborhoods near the airport. Many of the Shi'ites are refugees from parts of southern Lebanon that Israel invaded last year and still occupies...
...widow watched proudly from the gallery, the Senate voted 78 to 22 to establish the third Monday of January, beginning in 1986, as a national holiday commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The high moment could not, however, erase the memory of a squalid scene the day before. New Right Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina had resurrected the old smear that King was a Communist sympathizer, setting off a shouting tumult in which other legislators broke Senate rules to impugn Helms' motives. Then, only hours after the Senate vote had seemingly...
After independence, the population of Luanda more than doubled to 1 million as tribesmen flooded the capital in search of work. In the squalid shantytowns of wooden clapboard, sheet metal and clay adobe that ring the capital, barefoot children share the streets with squealing piglets, chickens and goats. Conditions in the bleak ten-story apartment houses in town are not much better: in front of one building, women and children draw runoff water from an enormous pothole in the street...