Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conservative groups were dismayed by what they called encroaching federal intervention in the family domain. But organizations involved with victims of domestic crime hailed the news. Said Janice Moore, a staffer at a Washington shelter for battered women: "You can't keep hiding these problems behind the family flag...
...loud explosion. There is the unmistakable sound of machine-gun and small-arms fire. By this time we have been joined by Wadi Haddad, the President's national security adviser. He goes to the window, looks out and then returns. No one has made a move for the shelter, where the army has been forcing the President to spend each night...
...current negotiations are successful, the St. Mary's shelter will be open as a women's shelter in November, said committee chairman Richard W. Painter '84. Both shelters will remain open through the winter, he added...
There are several other homeless shelters in the Boston area. Shelter, Incorporated, a private organization, operates a shelter in Boston and one in Cambridge and plans on opening a third in Cambridge. Two other shelters are open in Boston, according to Pastor Fred Reese of the University Lutheran Church. These are frequented by street alcoholics and drug users, making them undesirable to many street people...
According to statistics compiled at Rosie's Place, a soup kitchen and overnight shelter for women in Boston, approximately 40 percent of all vagrants are alcoholics, 40 percent have been in mental institutions, 10 percent are elderly and 10 percent are young children...