Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it cooled down, Fuller's galactic vision turned out to be a peculiarly Yankee notion of universal principles translatable into an earthly Utopia. Fuller's trademark word was Dymaxion, which meant getting the most out of available technology. Dymaxion houses would solve the world's shelter problems. Dymaxion cars, steered by a single rear wheel, could park in a space only one foot larger than the car itself. Today, Fuller holds more than 20 patents, mostly for structural designs still...
...years ago a young American President offered us shelter in his land from Communist oppression. Have the American people changed so much that they are willing to trade us off for the sake of appeasing Castro...
Merry Clayton's portrayal of the Acid Queen was supposed to be the highlight of an otherwise dull popstar version of Tummy Merry's talents, though artistically evident, weren't really visible until she turned up on "Gimme Shelter," and then on Joe Cocker's first two albums, and like Claudia Lennear, she's parlayed her experience as a backup singer, into a solo career. This woman has a very large voice: you have to, to put balls into some of the stuff Carole King writes...
...Shelter. Last week's ruling, in effect, contradicted TWA's allegations that Hughes committed antitrust violations in the 1950s, when he owned nearly 80% of TWA and made all of its major decisions. TWA charged in the suit that when jet aircraft were first brought into commercial use in 1958, Hughes deliberately procrastinated in securing them for the airline. He eventually had the line lease jets from his Hughes Tool Co. before buying its own, an arrangement that TWA lawyers said benefited the tool company more than TWA. Hughes Tool Co. had large cash reserves at the time...
...work. They sleep on the platforms of railroad stations or in the jhuggis-sheet-metal and jute huts-that are home to hundreds of thousands of Bombay's poor. There is little work to be found, and in the past few months, with no money and often no shelter, many have had to beg. Accustomed to providing for themselves, they are humiliated and bitter that the government has not done anything to alleviate their plight. Since most of them have no money, they cannot even take advantage of the "fair price shops"-so called because they sell below...