Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seasons means that it gets harder to survive. During the past two years in New York City, at least 29 street people froze to death. Last February in Atlanta, Roosevelt Richardson, a drunk, climbed into an abandoned car to sleep; gangrene followed frostbite. "I didn't have a blanket," he says. "I guess that's why I lost my feet...
...some extent the Linking of these three pro-life issues by the U.S. bishops differs from the views of Pope John Paul II, who has yet to issue a blanket condemnation of capital punishment. The Pope and the U.S. bishops are united in believing that threats to human life, including abortion and the nuclear arms race, are major moral problems for our time...
...move from a ceremonial position to the real challenge of assembling a government that represents everyone, favors no one and functions efficiently. Above all, both Grenada and the U.S. must exercise great skill in striking a careful balance that will promote our development without smothering us under a blanket of dollar bills. Grenada is already grateful to the U.S. If this delicate mission is accomplished, we will have even more reason to be grateful...
Israeli soldiers immediately began to tear away the debris with their bare hands. "A stretcher! A stretcher!" a soldier shouted. A moment later, a litter with a gray blanket covering a body was carried from the bombed-out area. "We discover a body every five minutes," said a colonel, and so it seemed. Five minutes later, another stretcher carried another body to the parking lot of the compound. Soldiers followed two German shepherds who led them to still another body buried in the ruins. "These dogs have already found seven," explained their trainer. Helicopters whipped up dust as they landed...
Linden Tefft, Harvard's director of financial systems, said the University sought to receive blanket amnesty for all past grants to prevent further costly audits...