Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each year of Perón's exile) were to be released. But by the time they were set loose, the 50-acre meadow below had turned into a bloody battlefield. Volleys of shots rang out, and thousands of people fell to the ground or scrambled for shelter, screaming. When the shooting stopped, 34 Argentines lay dead and 342 were wounded. They were victims not of police or army violence but of bitter hatreds within the movement that calls itself Peronism-a polymorphous organization that encompasses old-line union chiefs, Trotskyite students and brown-shirted thugs...
...argument: in a recent world tour, which included a stop this spring at Harvard, he repeatedly argued that political radicalism is dead, and that its goals must now be realized through the Guru Maharaj Ji. "Now it is possible to connect all of us to one source--and food, shelter and peace become a practical reality," he said...
...speaks of continuing the fight for social justice under the guidance of Maharaj Ji. Only now there'll be no more problems of ego or pettiness. "Now is is possible to connect all of us to one source," he says, "and food, shelter and peace become a practical reality...
...disappointment. The conference had been delayed for so long that it had lost its hold on the baroque council hall in Vienna's Imperial Palace. The delegates instead assembled in the austere meeting rooms of the International Atomic Energy Agency, from which they had to beg last-minute shelter...
...visions of good works," she writes. "Now my goal is simpler. I want to be happy. And I want comfort... I'll vote and I'll give to charity, but I won't give myself. I have a sudden desire to buy land... a kind of fall-out shelter, I guess. As some people prepare for their old age, so I prepare for my twenties. A little house, a comfortable chair, peace and quiet -- retirement sounds tempting...