Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother of a handicapped child, Robin Groves manages to evoke no sympathy whatsoever. She henpecks her daughter constantly, never realizing that 15-year-old girls don't like being saddled with responsibility for little brothers. To protect her son from "giving up" she tries to shelter him from tiffs with his sister and other "unpleasantness," but she does nothing to keep the 13-year-old crippled boy from racing all around town on a souped-up motorized wheelchair that blows by cars as if they were standing still. Even after his best friend is torn to pieces by the werewolf...
...still mostly cloudy. Many members of our community do not seem prepared to relinquish their scholarly claim to independence as they push for increased Harvard interaction with the community. It appears that many Harvard members believe you can have your cake and eat it, too, as long as you shelter behind the protective shield of veritas...
Human Services Secretary Philip W. Johnston--who was joined by state First Lady Kitty Dukakis at a news conference--said the 'communitization' program ensures that people familiar with a region's needs decide how to direct state aid. The report says the new service network provided basic shelter for all families and almost all individuals during last winter...
Hundreds of citizens flocked to medical clinics to donate blood, while others contributed food, clothing and blankets and offered shelter to the homeless. In the meantime the rescuers, some wearing bright orange vests and blue face masks, labored to trace cries for help amid twisted girders and broken blocks of concrete. When rescuers found survivors, they passed them in a human chain from the top of fallen buildings to the street and into waiting ambulances...
...pocket, gave the defendant $20 and told deputies to put him on a bus for Cleveland. Bridges, 30, was supposed to visit his mother there. Instead, he took to the streets, where he began peddling sex. The city offered Bridges medical aid and lodging, but he drifted from one shelter to another before getting arrested on a street corner for disorderly conduct. Released, he was last reported heading for Houston to "pick up his van." Cleveland officials, who cannot find any legal authority to incarcerate him indefinitely, were noticeably relieved to hear that he had left town...