Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took over as his mother, and David grew up believing that Jo was his sister. He was raised by the family's notions of total freedom; he was kept out of school and picked up his education from the people who gravitated to the storefront seeking food and shelter. The storefront, which the group turned into a factory to produce Tiffany-style lampshades rather than into a coffeehouse, overflowed with dogs, vagrants, hanging lamps, plants, glass-cutting equipment, books, rags and grime...
Phoebe Snow (Shelter). "Sometimes these hands get so clumsy that I drop things and people laugh. Sometimes these hands seem so graceful I can see them signin' autographs." Reality and fantasy blend nicely in this graceful, never clumsy debut album. Phoebe's original lyrics are as plain as morning bread, but her alto voice is jazzy. Jazz Notables Teddy Wil son (piano) and Zoot Sims (saxophone) join the diversified goings...
...anxiety was almost palpable along Los Angeles' Skid Row on Wednesday night of last week. Businessmen who work in the gleaming new office towers near by hurried home along the Harbor Freeway. Frightened winos and derelicts crowded the dilapidated missions or dozed uneasily on hardwood chairs in the shelter of neighborhood chapels. Liquor sales were off, and the drab streets, lined with pawnshops, surplus-clothing stores and aging apartment hotels, were uncommonly empty. In the past eight weeks, seven middle-aged men, most of them down-and-outers, had been found in doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within...
Bombing Villages. Another trouble spot is the Lebanese-Israeli border. Palestinian guerrillas have frequently crossed it to attack Israel, while Israeli forces have retaliated by bombing, shelling and raiding Lebanese villages that they claim have provided the Palestinians with shelter. In the past year, more than 100 Lebanese civilians have been killed or wounded while 58 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian guerrillas. Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week accused Lebanon of letting more Palestinians enter the country from Syria armed with Soviet-built antitank and antiaircraft missiles...
Flying Iron. By week's end, the death toll had reached 48 and was expected to rise; at least 900 were injured and 100 missing. Nearly half the population were without even the shell of a home for shelter; the city had no potable water, power or a working sewage system. Relief officials feared outbreaks of cholera and tetanus induced by contaminated water supplies and inadequate medical treatment...