Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road as I walked around Bordersville last month with 70-year-old Alfred Phillips, the eldest member of Bordersville's most community-minded family. "The water came all up in here when it rained last month," the old man said, pointing to the front of a sagging wooden shack trimmed with Christmas tree lights. "All the water flows down here from the main road. This is Louis Welsh Street, the worst street in Bordersville." A hundred yards up the road, Louis Welsh Street intersected Martin Luther King Avenue, then disappeared into the thick Texas brush...
...Vatican City. In it, he charged that the church is involved in "capitalistic exploitations at the economic, social and ideological levels." As one effort to reverse that alliance, Dom Giovanni announced, he intends to leave his monastery-but not his capacity as a bishop-to labor among the impoverished shack dwellers of Rome's peripheral shantytowns-"the new desert, which we must make fruitful...
...pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...
...granting of credit. Banks, retail stores and credit card companies are generally reluctant to allow a married woman to open a line of credit on her own, and they often wipe out a woman's credit rating entirely when she marries or becomes widowed or divorced. Says Barbara Shack of the New York Civil Liberties Union: "Credit has become the American way of life, and women have been systematically excluded from the credit society...
...second wife Safiya, a former nurse whom he met two years ago while he was recovering from an automobile accident. She has presented him with a son, whom he named Seif al-Islam (sword of Islam), and is expecting a second child. Gaddafi's father lives in a shack in one of Tripoli's slums, and Gaddafi has vowed that "he will be the last to have a house," meaning that everyone else must be properly housed before his own family. Gaddafi expects his colleagues-whom he addresses as "Brother"-to live in a similar fashion. When Prime...