Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the marathoners couldn't stand on their own and had to be held up on either side by friends. Others sought the shelter of a warm blanket. Some were in true agony, clutching at their sides and coughing violently. Burns, and later Kala, walked away without faltering. But on all of their faces was a dazed look. Burns accepted congratulations and moved off, seemingly unaware of his surroundings...
...help and doctors until, at three thirty in the morning a tank broke in through iron and flesh. We went out, as many of us as were able to. Policemen and soldiers everywhere with machine guns in hand running after us, hitting, crippling unarmed children. Most of us found shelter in the surrounding buildings either as guests of the people living there or hiding under the stairs...
...things that seem made up, which is like the gap between present and past. That's the place all these Southern types and extremes come slinking, slouching out of, and anyone, even an outsider, can tell they are sold to people--and not just Yankees--like post cards, to shelter and settle memories and would-be memories under. They really...
After 20 hours of fighting, the rebels retreated. In their wake they left hundreds dead; the central marketplace, the Roman Catholic Cathedral and more than half of the town were in smoldering ruins. More than 25,000 refugees were without shelter, water and rice; another 35,000 fled by boat to Zamboanga on Mindanao-an island that itself is racked with Moslem insurgency...
Moreover, inflation has punished the poor more than other Americans. Low-income families must spend an average of 71% of their earnings for food and shelter, but these fast-inflating items take only 50% of the earnings of upper-income families. Runaway food prices last year lifted farmers' incomes to record highs, at the expense of other Americans, including the urban poor. A congressional Joint Economic Committee staff study concludes that "in 1973 low-income persons suffered about one-third more inflation than did middle-and upper-income consumers...