Word: overnighters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past two years, Shelter Inc. has been combing the right Cambridge housing market in search of a building to offset the the city's growing homeless population. Although the group already operates a 20-bed overnight shelter on School St. and a 35-bed facility for families in Boston, Shelter Inc.'s directors recognized a pressing need for transitional housing in the Hub area. Such transitional shelters provide homeless men and women with a temporary residence for several months as they seek employment, gain income, and acquire a permanent home...
...past few months, Cambridge residents near the church have banded together to prevent the shelter from moving into their neighborhood. Although they support the work of Shelter Inc., residents claim Central Square already has the greatest concentration of overnight shelters in the city. Indeed, the economically distressed Central Square already supports six different shelters while some of the city's more affluent neighborhoods have none...
...Curren's victim in the semifinals, has realized a bitter truth: "I hate to hear anyone say, 'When I was playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In the women's division, where Shirley Temples turn into Gloria Swansons overnight, glory would seem to be especially fleeting, and from third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand...
...feeling of double recall: in 1970 he had helped cover the hijacking of four jetliners by Palestinian guerrillas, and during 1980-81, he reported on the hostage crisis in Tehran. Covering the Israeli role last week, Flamini found that normally informative sources had grown tight-lipped overnight. Said he: "One of the most talkative political centers in the world had suddenly fallen silent." In this unaccustomed atmosphere, Jerusalem Reporter Robert Slater drew on an unusual source. At one point Slater heard a matter-of-fact Israel Radio report that Israel and the U.S. were in close, continuous contact. Says Slater...
...that angered L.B.J. Johnson lashed out at Nixon as a "chronic campaigner" who "never did really recognize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government." The result, as Theodore H. White recounts in The Making of the President: 1968, was that "Nixon was, overnight, front-page again." Buchanan has certainly not helped Cuomo so dramatically. Nonetheless, he has handed New York's Governor the official White House seal of disapproval as Most Important Adversary in the tax-reform battle...