Word: shelterer
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...reports cheerfully that "an alert was a social event: you saw new faces and welcomed back old friends. One day in the shelter I met the Danish ambassador to Peking, and another time a whole diplomatic dinner party." Of course, she admits, the hotel shelter was a pretty exclusive affair. No "ordinary Vietnamese," not even the hotel staff, ever showed up in it. As for the famed concrete-pipe shelters buried alongside roadways for the man in the street, they seemed to be "more a symbol of determination than places to scuttle to when the planes approached. 'There...
...some of the poor people wandered off to look for something to eat. Work just abut stopped completely in the afternoon. John Miller, a Harvard junior who came down because "all of a sudden I realized I didn't have any exams," was working on an A-frame shelter with a carpenterish-looking white man from Miami, Florida. At 3 p.m. Tuesday they were the only ones hammering. The man from Florida said he came because the 12 tribes of Israel are supposed to show up sometime before June 6 "right on this very spot." God told him that...
...worst rioting, flames emptied a three-story tenement, then rapidly blew through the area. "Most of these houses are nothing more than reinforced card board," said one tenant. The worst fire in Newark's history razed 1½ blocks and left more than 500 residents with out shelter...
...collect $15,000 in Boston suburban areas to provide food, shelter, and transportation for a group of Boston poor people, who will march 450 miles to Washington beginning...
...from Goucher, a private college outside riot-torn Baltimore, loaded cars, microbuses and a borrowed hearse with 300 cartons of food and relayed them into the city's burned-out core, racing against a 4 p.m. curfew. Many matrons in Washington and its suburbs contributed food, clothing and shelter to the capital's riot victims. In New York, 5,000 suburbanites signed up for a massive "clean-in" this week in the city's slums...