Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day there was no violence, but plenty of noise. Trains, buses, autos and old-style ox wagons poured 250,000 South Africans onto the scene. A city of 5,000 tents had been built to shelter part of the crowd. Many were dressed in Voortrekker garb-the men in cowhide or corduroys, with feathered slouch hats, powder horns, and bushy beards which they had carefully grown during the past year; the women in flowing dresses and tight kappies (sunbonnets...
...army's slum corps are only its front line. The man who staggers drunkenly to its altar can count on the army's trying its best to rehabilitate him, feed him, shelter him and get him a job. If he is unemployable, the army will probably employ...
...City has few hotels to shelter visitors. It lacks adequate water or electricity. Three miles to the south in Bethlehem, Christmastide promises to be sad and bitter. The village where Christ was born is jammed with Arab refugees; 55,000 hungry, homeless, hopeless outcasts of war live in an area that normally supports 12,000. The one good road (10 minutes by motorcar) to Jerusalem is in Israeli hands; the only other road is hardly more than a tortuous trail through the desolate Judean hills...
...world's history or for that matter any other people at the present time in the world's history, we are enjoying in this country more abundant material benefits than can be found elsewhere at any time. Not everyone is fully provided with the necessities of food, clothing, and shelter. Not everyone has employment. But taking the country as a whole and taking the rest of the world as a whole, the percentage of Americans who are suffering real deprivation is small indeed as compared with other peoples, and the percentage of those who are living in comfort, who enjoy...
...bullfights (see cut). They like the Americans, openly want their island to become a U.S. dependency. Long a subject people, they were exploited for more than 60 years by Japanese occupying troops and businessmen, who despised them as country cousins. When the U.S. invaders gave them food and emergency shelter, Okinawans were amazed and grateful...