Word: shelterer
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...Manhattan who had won U.N. acceptance as the Congo's leader. When the drenching rain began that evening, the gay crowds had scattered, and Kasavubu was enjoying himself at a homecoming banquet given in his home. Over at Patrice Lumumba's house, the Congolese guards took shelter in a garage; in the downpour, no one noticed the black limousine that slipped into Lumumba's driveway, then raced out again with its furtive passenger...
...When she offers to share her bread with them, the toad jumps out. "The herdsmen three," the ballad continues, "took her to wife/ And then from her they took her life./ Her body in the mire they lay/ And with her garments went away." That night the murderers take shelter at a farmhouse, unaware that the farm belongs to the father (Max von Sydow) of their victim. When they offer to sell him the girl's garments, he slaughters them like the animals they are. Then he rushes through the forest to his daughter's corpse...
Tourists file through the garish, neon-lit Wanchai quarter-the world of Suzie Wong-dodging red rickshas and the green, double-decker tramcars. There are bars and bar girls on every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...
...effective warning system, says the O.R.O. report, is an indispensable first step toward an adequate civil defense. It is "impractical" to expect a nuclear-attack shelter program to get under way "as long as it is uncertain or unlikely that the shelters could be reached in time...
...Accused of mixing in politics and of acquiring great wealth, the Society of Jesus was banned from Portuguese domains in 1759, from Spain and her possessions in 1767. In 1773 the Society was dissolved completely by Pope Clement XIV. Some of its members were given shelter in Russia by Catherine the Great until Pope Pius VII reinstated them anew...