Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After that ordinance passed, private sources paid to set up the scene depicting the birth of Jesus, which consisted of a wooden shelter and several figures...
They're sexist, elitist and pointless--unless you consider it useful to shelter the partying and bonding activities of young, over-privileged men already graced with admission to Harvard and all the glory that entails, including the right to live in beautiful Harvard housing. But that does not seem enough for some men. Some men need a home away from home, away from women, away from men less worthy of their company, a place to relax and bask in the glow of patriarchal privilege...
...student body has mobilized in groups like SWAT and ZIP to let you know that they find your club's presence abhorrent. And I'm sure you know that the space could be better used as a student center, a women's center, office or classroom space, a shelter for battered women or even a homeless shelter. Yes, with homeless people all over Cambridge, you occupy an empty house. So I just want to know, being aware of all this, how do you, and how do all members of final clubs, live with yourselves...
Homeward Bound also co-sponsored the city Hunger/Homeless Awareness Week last week, and members ran a free showing of "God Bless the Child" to about 35 people at the Cambridge public library. The movie traced the odyssey of a mother and daughter who lose their home, then move from shelter to shelter, and finally must separate. By the end, most of the audience was in tears...
...Nicaraguan refugees pouring into Honduras once could count on shelter in U.N.-sponsored refugee camps. Now newcomers who are caught are forcibly returned. Hondurans, with an unemployment rate of about 40%, insist they cannot accommodate this job-hungry tide of dispossessed Nicaraguans. With 12,000 armed contras sitting in Honduran base camps, some Hondurans feel the U.S. has dragged them into a war that they never chose to fight. Though Washington understandably becomes annoyed when officials in Honduras and other Central American countries privately implore the U.S. to act tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support...