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de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Fifty years after LBJ declared a War on Poverty, LIFE looked at the plight of Appalachians in eastern Kentucky in 1964 - a region where the battle felt lost before it even begun. http://ti.me/K5N5sd (Photo: John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)