Word: shelterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Donations to the fund will be used to purchase food, medicines, shelter and clothing for refugess and others threatened by the conflict, Asia A. Bennett, executive secretary of the AFSC, said in a letter to the Harvard committee. The fund will also aid families of assassination victims, people targeted for assassination to escape, and political prisoners to escape, she added...
...Harvard men's tennis team is lucky that the Palmer Dixon courts have a roof. The shelter from yesterday's rain allowed them to roll over, 9-0, the much-improved Bruins of Brown, giving the Crimson a great psychological boost for today's must-win match with Yale...
...interviews. Nam stretches the form. A crisp, uniform tone suggests that many of the anecdotes may be composites from various sources. None of those interviewed is identified, though a glossary reacquaints us with the language of the war: busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal a deranging truth: memories of war's exhilarations often outlast the horrors and revulsions...
WHEN YOU were a little kid, you heard "Satisfaction" and "Gimme Shelter" on someone's car radio, and you wanted that record. Your parents had bought you lots of Simon and Garfunkel and let your piano teacher show you twelve-bar blues, but you wanted The Rolling Stones...
...What is really criminal," says a 24year-old mechanic who lives with his wife and three children in a rundown building in Kreuzberg's Oranienstrasse, "is not that we are breaking the law, which we are, but that shelter is going unused." Another young, illegal Oranienstrasse resident recalls the travail of walking Berlin streets for a year looking for a place to live. Says she: "It was a nightmare. If you came across a place by chance, the owner would demand $5,000 in key money. Who can afford that...