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  • The one square date he goes on obviously bores him to death – four months was his longest relationship, there's a clue – and on his one civilian sexual encounter he can't rise to the occasion, lacking as he does in this instance the authentic nearby tang of garbage, squalour, semen and Astroglide.

    Shame is not what you'd call an easy watch 2012

  • After being given independence, many of those countries slid down into a morass of corruption, violence and squalour.

    "we don't often talk directly about demographics...in the UK" 2009

  • So if - through no fault of your own - you happen to have been cursed with a human train wreck like mine no brothers, no sisters, no dad - just an alcoholic mess of a mother living in Dickensian squalour and surrounded by moulting cats what the hell are you supposed to do?

    Archive 2008-10-01 juliette 2008

  • So if - through no fault of your own - you happen to have been cursed with a human train wreck like mine no brothers, no sisters, no dad - just an alcoholic mess of a mother living in Dickensian squalour and surrounded by moulting cats what the hell are you supposed to do?

    My Family And Other Animals juliette 2008

  • "Damien of Molokai", MUCH recommended - the story of the hero priest who went to serve the lepers exiled to lives of squalour and misery in Hawaii.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

  • "Most of those affected by the clean up programme have rural homes or farms they can return to," said ZANU-PF, adding Zimbabwe had one of Africa's lowest rates of urban squalour.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • But the poverty and squalour are pervasive: everything is broken, there are crowds of very poor people everywhere, and many Haitians look near the edge of starvation, with hollow cheeks and painfully thin arms and legs.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Death In Haiti 2004

  • In the final analysis, we are justified to lay the blame at the door of the apartheid regime which has created conditions of such squalour and degradation among our people.

    Opening Address by ANC Deputy President Nelson Mandela At the African National Congress / Inkatha Freedom Party Summit 1991

  • In the final analysis, we are justified to lay the blame at the door of the apartheid regime which has created conditions of such squalour and degradation among our people.

    Opening Address by ANC Deputy President Nelson Mandela At the African National Congress / Inkatha Freedom Party Summit 1990

  • Almost everyone has been deeply moved by the squalour that is to be found here, and by the fact that, taken as a whole, the situation is deteriorating under Nationalist rule.

    ANC Letters and Telegrams to the United Nations THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1952

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