Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, Peking teems without being vital. Much of its brooding medieval beauty was lost when the Red regime in the 1950s took down major sections of the massive red gates and walls that once overlooked the Forbidden City. Scenically if not strategically, the vast underground air raid shelter system that was completed in 1970 has been a poor substitute...
...Gimme Shelter, Murder, violence, the Stones. New England Life Hall, 8:50, With Performance...
Partly to divert attention from Uganda's growing financial problems, Amin has in the past threatened to invade neighboring Tanzania, which angered him by offering ex-President Obote shelter. He has also taken crowd-pleasing steps like putting economic pressure on the country's 80,000 Asians, who control most of its small businesses. If Big Daddy is unable to bolster Uganda's sagging economy, however, there is a chance that some day he might meet an unspecified "doom," which was also foretold in that long-ago vision...
...existence. Virtual captives, those who try to escape their peonage are sometimes arrested on trumped-up charges by law officers sympathetic to the farmers. Paid little or nothing in cash on the grounds that their wages are actually owed their bosses for transportation and for the miserable food and shelter they supply, migrants have no money for flight. As one worker trapped in a cycle of alleged indebtedness said, "If you're born on the road, you'll most likely have to stay with it; they're not going to let go of you, the crew leader and the sheriff...
...most of Willowbrook's residents, the institution is a warehouse, a place capable of providing only shelter and the barest essentials, for those whose families are either unwilling or unable to care for them. One building designed to accommodate 188 currently houses 250 severely retarded and seriously disturbed adolescent girls in conditions so crowded that one bed must often be moved in order to reach another. Training of any kind is nonexistent, though recent experience elsewhere has shown that seemingly hopeless cases can benefit from professional attention. The girls spend their days sitting, standing or lying in a large...