Word: shelterer
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...fellow Liberians decided to rent an apartment off campus this fall, they soon found a suite of rooms on Massachuetts Avenue. Freeman was shocked, therefore, to encounter discrimination this winter when he sought a room for a Liberian friend. For two days Freeman and friend sought shelter at houses which sported room-for-rent signs. At each they were turned down; at each the landlord explained that the room had been leaned that morning or the night before. All along Beacon Street and Newbury Street the students hunted for a room until finally, after almost two days of rejection, Freeman...
...early bomb shelters, Homer theorized, were located in metros (sites of "underground" transportation). At some point in the second half of the twentieth century an extensive shelter construction program was initiated, which first revealed to man the obvious advantages of underground living. The West, in order to keep the Family (a group of people preventing others from living with them) intact enacted laws forbidding citizens to work or reside other than one mile from their shelters...
...process accelerated. All entertainment and cultural activities were proscribed outside of a small radius, and logically, the facilities of the shelter expanded enormously. Restaurants, theaters, recreation centers, and almost all aspects of social existence ultimately became shelter-oriented...
...Homer set forth a brief analysis of how the modern historian employs mythical research element. Distinguishing between scientifically stimulating myth" and "improbable religious myth" he scoffed at the folk tale of all the animals descended from a male and female of each species set aside in a special bomb shelter during these prehistoric times. He also questioned the religious doctrine that the basic freezing, and radioactive crust represents God's place of punishment...
...Shelter or Slaughter. Actually, for every Hindu tradition that forbids cow slaughter, progressive Hindus can find another that permits it. But butchering is banned outright in eight Indian states and restricted to very old animals in most others. Recently the Supreme Court ruled that state laws fixing the slaughtering age for cows at 25 years were unreasonable and suggested that 15 was old enough. According to one Delhi official's bitter estimate, the 10% of India's cows that are old, economically useless and fit only for the rest home program devour the output of 40 million...