Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success. At another party, given at the Monkey Club, an exclusive shelter and society finishing school for young ladies, a silver fountain gushed red wine all evening. "We wanted to have something original," explained the father of Debutante Christine Thorowgood. "Besides it's good wine...
...Like a Movie." Gradually he began to pass the word along that there was a shelter in the Church of Mater Dei, but the suspicious scugnizzi gave it a wide berth. Late one winter night he watched sadly as a group of three scugnizzi stripped a drunk to the skin, then he plodded off, muttering aloud: "I'm going to Mater Dei to get out of the cold." When he arrived at the church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last...
Today there are 80 boys in Father Borelli's shelter, and he knows that there would be many more if he had room for them. He is confident that there soon will be room; last week he rejoiced at the news that Naples' church and civil authorities had granted permission for him to move his shelter out of the slums and up to a site he has picked out on Capo di Monte, which overlooks the city...
...specially trained Arab assassin squads, who had crept north from the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. Submachine guns thundered in the room, and ten-year-olds went down in windrows. Three boys and a teacher died almost instantly; three others fell badly wounded. Others jumped out of windows, took shelter in a ditch. The killers fled. It was minutes before a teacher broke open the lock on the school telephone and called police...
...night in 1916 he was writing in the mud shelter he had built himself among the Tuaregs, when a band of marauders hauled him outdoors and shot him. Almost 40 years before, he had written: "Think that you are going to be martyred, stripped of everything, stretched out on the ground, naked, unrecognizable, covered with blood and wounds, violently and horribly murdered . . . and hope that this will happen today...