Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens of motorists abandoned their cars to flee on foot, and many foreign residents deserted their homes and took shelter in the swank Federal Palace Hotel...
...week, "is the overworked and fallacious idea that steel is the key. Steel and a few other so-called basic industries are expected to adhere rigidly to the prevailing prices while thousands of others, many concerned with such essential elements of the cost of living as food, clothing and shelter, go their merry way and raise prices at will." It was not surprising, therefore, that after the President's airline attempt, Block announced that Inland was upping its prices by $2 to $3 a ton on about a third of its basic products...
...move was to encourage pri vate foreign investment in India's des perately inadequate fertilizer industry (TIME, May 27). Then the government removed controls on eleven basic indus tries, including cement, iron and steel forging, and timber products. Two weeks ago, the rupee was devalued,* to combat inflation, shelter domestic manufactures against foreign competition, and make exports more salable in world markets. The Finance Ministry an nounced that it was working on an import-liberalization plan...
...draw on an international pool of guest conductors until Mr. Right comes along. This has not always been easy. Beyond the customary growing pains, the orchestra has also had to weather the ravages of three wars, offering visiting maestros such inducements as "the largest and most luxurious air-raid shelter in the Near East, with excellent acoustics." Leonard Bernstein conducted one concert during an attack by Egyptian bombers in 1948; Sir Malcolm Sargent, traveling to a performance in Jerusalem in 1937, was nearly picked off by an Arab sniper. Often the orchestra traveled in armored cars, was so hard pressed...
...this distorted ambiance, the words that once sheltered Spindrift shelter him no more. To his gathering surprise, the world that exists behind the word is a far more rewarding place. His liberated spirit plunges into the joys of stealing library books, winning a baldheaded contest and resurrecting his libido...