Poverty-ridden

Fresh from the poverty-ridden hillsides of Connaught, these rich grazing-lands, comfortable houses, magnificent demesnes and castles, are unspeakably grateful to the eye and healing to the spirit.

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1963, John F. Kennedy, Speech given at the University of San José, Costa Rica, 20 March, 1963, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 272, One program after another brought an end to tenant farming in the United States, electrified nearly every farm in our country, transformed the poverty ridden Tennessee Valley into one of the richest agricultural and industrial areas in the United States.

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[…] a young girl is sent to prison and forcibly fed with a tube through the nose for telling poverty-ridden slum-women how to keep from becoming pregnant!

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I was a poverty-ridden student striving for life in a system which makes the very existence of a scholar precarious.

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