Courts were built upon. Business establishments were cut up into tenements. Hovels and shacks were commonplace. Many of the poor crowded into deserted houses. A sizeable number of the city's ...
"It's no exaggeration to say that life is a nightmare for local people that have to live with these activities on their ...
So they went on, and they built little hovels in the casement wall, and they built other little residences in the trappings of Herod's splendor. And they watched Flavius Silva built a ramp on the ...
It seems to me that people like Mr. Terhune have wasted a great deal of sympathy on dogs that have starved to death in hovels rather than leave their masters. They are the socially inefficient ...
Cold ComfortThe poor died in their hovels, and the rich shivered in their grand palaces, such as Versailles near Paris, where one correspondent could “barely hold the pen.” Photograph by ...
Or rather in Baku. A short ride on the existing rail leading northwest from the capital reveals not political realists but reality itself, the hovels that house those who have not felt the ...
Old men have been much in the news of late. Specifically, the health and intellectual fitness of two aging politicians, ...
Shovels have gathered dust and snow blowers have laid dormant for nearly two years in some of the major cities in the Northeast, a snow drought that could finally come to an end this winter.
homeless people dying and crack addicts giving birth in hovels. They are often assigned the futile chore of attending to corpses discovered in decaying buildings, surrounded by black flies – but ...
The Lok Sabha elections in Delhi will see battles on multiple fronts, particularly intense in the city’s slums where inhabitants fear losing subsidies and houses. Issues of water scarcity, lack of ...
keeps weeping watch over the departed” — and the busy streets of London in “Segu,” where the luxury stores of the Strand give way to “hovels filled with human wrecks sleeping and ...
Frankly, some of my favorite wrenches have worked out of absolute hovels. You've got to try and get a gut feeling. Stop in and introduce yourself. I often find it's easier to talk to any business ...