Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappointing weekend to say the least." Felske said later, looking for a fall-out shelter...
...Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale when she sank with a crew of 29. In real winter, which in these parts begins in late December and does not let up until April, Superior's blasts drive ice down the bay in windrowed slabs, like giant serving dishes stacked...
...attacks from Tais in the west and Chams in the south. A dozen more wars and another ruthless Chinese occupation in the early 15th century reinforced the Viets' independent spirit and burned hostility toward the Chinese into their minds for good. Before World War II, Nationalist China gave shelter to anti-French Vietnamese political refugees, but even this consideration failed to erase the enmity. In his subsequent war against the French, Ho Chi Minh was offered the support of Mao Tse-tung's advancing Communist army, which might have meant quick, joint victory. Ho declined. Later, with pithy logic...
...been easy for Place to continually work around the system that provides its funding. The system looked down on us for a long time," Jackson says. But after five or six years of watching more runaways run to Place than to any other shelter, the funders are changing their minds and tend to let Place organize the way it wants...
Place House now has the reputation for being the runaway shelter in New England. It took a long time," Jackson says. We had to break a lot of rules...