Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some streets half the shops are tightly shuttered. The Chinese have been particularly hard hit by a government crackdown on private enterprise that began in March. Most larger businesses were taken over by the government, and thousands of Chinese have fled the country or are waiting, miserably and without shelter, at the Viet Nam-China border for the chance to get out. An estimated 8,000 refugees?Chinese and non-Chinese?have found their way to Hong Kong alone since the fall of Saigon. Another 10,000 or so have made it to France...
...effect of the headquarters migration has shown up dramatically in real estate inflation. In downtown Stamford, office space now rents at Manhattan rates: $17 to $23 a foot. Housing costs have soared, partly because so many moneyed people are looking for shelter and partly because real estate taxes are lower than in New York's neighboring Westchester County. In Greenwich, a four-bedroom house that sold for $80,000 in 1968 goes for $200,000 today. Rising housing costs are lessening the financial advantages of working in Connecticut. But they are still substantial because the Nutmeg State...
Montaillou had once seemed an ordinary mountain town, each family clustered around a house that gave it not only shelter but identity. There was little class distinction and considerable sharing of resources. The villagers were united in fierce anticlericalism, and with reason. The regional ruler, the Count de Foix, had defended his fief from exorbitant church taxes. But when the aristocrat died, the bishops of Pamiers imposed ever more onerous tithes. The new church exactions doubtless influenced many villagers to consider the teachings of the Cathar parfaits (perfect ones, the heresy's elect...
...nautical trespassing began on June 27, when a Soviet tugboat and three smaller vessels anchored off the Nordkyn Peninsula in the Barents Sea. The Soviet captains claimed to be seeking shelter from bad weather. The often stormy northern seas were calm at the time. The boats left after a Norwegian gunboat was dispatched to escort them out of the area...
Carlin always enjoyed breaking rules, crossing race and ethnic lines, mimicking Blacks and Italians and Jews. He's listed his "Seven Words" in auditoriums for ears all over America, and has completed a very astute study of the unspoken street culture that parents try desperately to shelter their kids from. Carlin sees his comedy and rebellion as his self-expression, his way of freeing himself from his emotions and feelings--a liberation. It started, he says, "when I was a kid and I ran away from home and told all the institutions to go and fuck themselves. I was smoking...