Word: squalor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...
...British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors, who are themselves aware that service in such a post is proof of their personal failure. The natives live in age-old ignorance and squalor, the desert villages are outposts of pure savagery, and the rabble-rousing nationalists are free to work their political magic...
...backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could she end up in the squalor of Teheran?" A Vatican source said: "In the eyes of the church, the Shah is an infidel...
...Believe It?" With all that gold out front, she said, why should the servants live in squalor in the back? Harking back to the days when she triumphantly introduced cold running water into the servants' quarters of the U.S. embassy in Argentina, she demanded bigger rooms, toilets and even balconies, instead of the sparse quarters that Europeans customarily provide for their help in India. "Can you believe it?" said she. "They weren't even going to have chimneys for their stoves." Harriet Bunker's crusade cost an extra $250,000, probably delayed the completion of the building...
...flights to celestial and cosmic bodies" will also be carried out. It targets an overall rise of 80% in industrial output by 1965, and a 62%-63% boost in national income. Thus the emphasis will again be on heavy industry-an old story to Russian workers living in overcrowded squalor. They have to be inspired somehow to renewed effort. Khrushchev's recipe is pride, optimism, promises...