Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyer. Barnes' financial success is a matter of record-in theory. For 1975 he reported to the IRS that he had earned $288,750. Of that, $1,750 was "wages" and the rest was "miscellaneous income." He also claimed $453,000 in real estate losses as a tax shelter...
...line of products expanded, and as the company grew and the ingenious elves kept finding better and more efficient ways of making presents, the land's standard of living grew, too. No citizen of Santaland, as it came to be known, ever needed to worry about food or shelter after The Santa Corporation hit its stride...
...Christ Church flung open the church doors and called his flock from their thatched houses. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden," he intoned in a deep bass, "and I will give you rest." About 125 villagers, most of them harijan (untouchable) converts, took shelter. When winds ranging up to 100 m.p.h. ripped off the roof, the walls crumbled and entombed the congregation; all were found dead the next day. Rosaiah, the village agnostic who lost his wife and two children, had not gone to the church. "It was God that failed," he moaned...
...committee also heard from Father Bruce Ritter, a Franciscan priest who founded and runs a private New York City shelter for runaways. He told of the 14-year-old boy who had been held prisoner for six weeks in a Times Square hotel by a pimp, who chased the fleeing boy right into Ritter's center, trying to maim the youngster with a broken bottle...
Approaching Arafat, one sees a white sea of tents stretching across the wide valley. The Saudi Arabian government establishes these camps to provide shelter for the pilgrims on that day. Each camp is assigned a leader in charge of a group of pilgrims, responsible for their transportation, feeding and housing...