Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purity." Reagan intends to start up his preaching immediately; he will resume broadcasting his radio column the first of September. He plans to support Ford this fall and will pay no heed to the conservative third-party movement which meets this week in Chicago. "It may give some shelter to conservatives," he said, "but I don't believe in third parties on the eve of an election...
Undergraduate tuition may become a tax shelter, since the Senate version of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 includes a credit for any taxpayers paying undergraduate tuition for themselves, spouses or dependents...
...tent is a "collapsible shelter of canvas or other material stretched and sustained by poles." So says Webster's and so most people believe. Bill Moss has a broader concept. He knows that there are A-frames and O-domes and poly-domes, pup tents and pop tents, Indian tepees and Mongolian yurts, tents for dogs and campers and sheiks, tents that sag and perspire and leak, tents that infuriate. In fact Moss knows so much about the subject that even the Arabs -tent mavens from way back-may soon be living in Moss-designed, tentlike housing...
...will need far greater capacity if Arab governments buy his 300-sq.-ft. tentlike shelters of stressed cotton fabric sprayed with plastic foam to make it rigid. "If I can develop and produce it for what I say I can," says Moss, "we are talking about hundreds of thousands of these structures." But Moss the tentmaker will not be fully satisfied until someone buys his favorite idea, an already tested shelter that can be rushed to earthquake-or other disaster-stricken areas. Carried over the site by a helicopter and released in midair, it opens like a parachute and drops...
...Indians, whom other travelers have found to be fickle and fierce, Bartram has had no trouble. Indeed, he sees the red men as dwellers in a sort of paradise, well supplied with food and shelter. The Seminoles of Florida, he writes, are "as blithe and free as the birds of the air, and like them as volatile and active, tuneful and vociferous." All Indians are a long way from being ignorant savages, he observes: "These people are both well-tutored and civil ... It is from the most delicate sense of the honour and reputation of their tribes and families that...