Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used my money to buy a meal and spend the night in Berkeley's only hotel, an old worn-down warehouse located in the small industrial section. It wasn't much better than sleeping in an alleyway, but it provided some shelter. Most of the people in there were drifting, just like...
...Golan, one of the 17 Israeli settlements in the Golan. Begun a month after the end of the Six-Day War, Merom Golan now has a population of 300, including 100 children. We passed homes under construction. Each house, finished or not, had its red-and-black-striped bomb shelter. When the war erupted last October, the settlement was evacuated. After four days the men returned to work the land. This year they will harvest the first fruits of the apple and plum trees. "We are settlers," says the acting secretary of the settlement, a young emigrant from Rumania...
...Rebelo, new head of the secret police: "Go softly. Go calmly. I know you are going to be good citizens. We trust you. You are free." Some had been in prison so long that after their sudden release they had nowhere to go and found temporary shelter by returning to their cells...
...development proposal called for a "cooperative effort" that would guarantee "Harvard and its institutional affiliates...the expansion of facilities that they feel is necessary" and guarantee RTH "the security of shelter and stabilization and strengthening of the entire community that they feel is necessary." RTH called on Harvard to maintain the existing housing in good repair until the University could provide housing at affordable rents. The tenants specifically proposed that Harvard build this relocation housing on the 10-acre Convent site, with "RTH and/or their designee" as "sponsor and developer...
...sleeping Israeli village of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 17,000) near the Lebanese border. Armed with bazookas, grenades and submachine guns, they shot their way up to the top of a four-story apartment building, firing indiscriminately into one apartment after the other. As sirens sounded and townspeople scurried for shelter, Israeli troops rushed to the scene. When the shooting stopped four hours later, 18 Israeli men, women and children-as well as the three terrorists-lay dead. At least 15 others were wounded...