Both of them came off just dirt-poor tenant farms.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos] Reference

Few thought these dreamers in a dirt-poor country w.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Borthwick and Kenneth Lerer: Micro-Giving: A New Era in Fundraising] Reference

They were dirt-poor and probably ostracized and persecuted.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOW TO STOP THE CONTAGION] Reference

It's becoming a booming trade in the oil-rich, dirt-poor country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2007] Reference

Few thought these dreamers in a dirt-poor country would ever repay.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Borthwick and Kenneth Lerer: Micro-Giving: A New Era in Fundraising] Reference

But here we are, and we're dirt poor and this is a dirt-poor country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America] Reference

The young hero, Jamal Malik, is a dirt-poor orphan from the Mumbai slums.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Slumdog' Finds Rare Riches in Poor Boy's Tale] Reference

The people they're recruiting are either dirt-poor, bored, or iconoclasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call to Arms]

Some were students and pastors; many were dirt-poor farmers and urban workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's Real MLK Problem] Reference

Transport is clearly one of the big voter problems in this dirt-poor corner of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In dirt-poor townships, chairs and beds are used to bar entry to marauding gunmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"Why you're dirt-poor and why there're so few of you," Tarma interrupted genially.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oathbound]

Because of her past as a young girl in dirt-poor Mississippi, poor people relate to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2005] Reference

Guinea, a formerly dirt-poor, tiny country which reached an economic growth of 65 per cent in 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He was born in 1948 into a dirt-poor Catholic family, in a statelet run by Protestants for Protestants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Terrorist or Peace-Maker? An Exclusive Interview with Gerry Adams, Former Head of the I.R.A.] Reference

There will be improvements in basic infrastructure, such as heat and running water in dirt-poor provinces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

But in the slums that ring Caracas, invasion paranoia is running high amongst dirt-poor Chavez supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2006] Reference

Kadhafi, however, has a long history of meddling in the affairs of Libya's dirt-poor neighbour to the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It is also the only tangible benefit many dirt-poor families have ever received from the Brazilian government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris McGowan: What Brazil Can Teach The USA: Fair Presidential Elections] Reference

The U.N. goals are aimed at the dirt-poor, a different level of misery than what's measured in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.N. foresees dramatic cuts in poverty] Reference

He was raised in what he called dirt-poor surroundings in the small west Texas town of Seth Ward, near Plainview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimmy Dean obituary] Reference

Native Americans getting rich off casinos instead of staying dirt-poor does nothing to prove how bad colonialism was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Gutfeld: By Popular Demand: America Sucks!] Reference

Tell it to the little Thai girl ... sold into slavery by her own dirt-poor parents so they could afford a television.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Help in the Land of Denial] Reference

A booming trade in oil - rich, dirt-poor Nigeria, but the latest victim is 3 years old, and her captors don't want money.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2007] Reference

Fritz Mason went to a dusty field in the dirt-poor Merino Park district of De Aar recently to tell his troubles to Nelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

His congregation in a dirt-poor township scrapes some rands together each month because "Christians don't have apartheid".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

One dirt-poor village pooled its cash to send a delegate hundreds of miles across the country to explain how pleased they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan: An Exclusive Interview with Malalai Joya] Reference

Other than that you'd really want to be the dirt-poor, orange jumpsuited single mother having to wait in line behind that call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lindsay Lohan's prison sentence is an outrage] Reference

Denard, gray-haired and limping after decades of soldiering, has staged several coups on this dirt-poor chain of islands between.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In the middle of squalor and close to tatty schools with broken windows and dirt-poor pupils stands a palatial school subsidised by.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They're known as "ants," for their willingness to work, their dirt-poor living conditions, and the seeming futility of their efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart, Young, and Broke] Reference

But the pressures on a park surrounded by a sea of dirt-poor people in a new South Africa, which places its people first, are enormous.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Born in 1915, George Wagner was raised dirt-poor during the Depression and came of age in the spare, rationed thrift of the wartime '40s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hello, Gorgeous] Reference

Mom used to say you grew up a dirt-poor Georgia boy, had to scrap and fight for everything you had I used to think about that, sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

For five years starting in 1938, Chuang, his family and comrades lived in the dirt-poor town of Anshun, in Guizhou province, waiting for the war to die down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unburied Treasures] Reference