Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contention that a desire "in conscience" not to name ones friends might "explain" a claim of the privilege. It states (p. 600) that "Every good citizen is bound to aid in the enforcement of the law, and has no right to permit himself, under the pretext of sheltering his own good name to be the tool of others, who are desirous of seeking shelter behind his privilege...
...comic charade: the liberal do-gooder ("To her, real life was public, what you voted at or gave for or read about in The Nation"), the European refugees who know all about America ("You Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause...
Choked Throats. As the dusters sweep in, visibility sometimes falls to zero. During bad storms, traffic ceases, lights go on in such hard-hit towns as Garden City, Kans. or Lubbock, Texas. Farmers and townspeople seek shelter and wait while dust seeps remorselessly through every crack of window and door and drifts in the fields and streets outside...
...voice of Abbé Pierre went on: "Empty your attics, Parisians. There may be venerable things in them, but they're less venerable than the lives of babies." As the Abbé strode through a tent shelter late last week, a woman in a chic Persian lamb coat handed him $210 collected from friends. "Monsieur 1'Abbé," she cried. "You have awakened...
...Saints & Heroes. Abbé Pierre and the cruel cold have brought a new mood to Paris. He has even established a modern version of the medieval institution of sanctuary by persuading the police to promise that no one in a shelter shall be asked for his identity papers. But Abbé Pierre knows well how quickly a rise in temperature can melt the city's new found concern. "It's not enough to prevent miserable people from dying in the streets," he says. "They have to be helped so they can live like...