Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room that it is the Lord Jesus who has told the doctor and his wife to come to the Ogowe, and that white people in Europe give them money to live here and cure the sick Negroes. The African sun is shining through the coffee bushes into the dark shed; but we, black and white, sit side by side and feel that we know by experience the meaning of the words, 'And all ye are brethren...
...mighty events which followed it, nevertheless seems in retrospect one of the great periods of human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed that there really was a new spirit abroad in the world, when free people were cooperating to win a free world, and no tyranny could frustrate their hopes...
...choleric Commodore Cyril Gordon Illingworth paced restlessly. "We'll sail at 3 p.m.," he had said confidently the day before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
...Shed. Few U.S. moviemen would take such a sanguine view. Britain needs 300 pictures a year, including many B productions, to supply all its theaters. But few had worked as hard as Korda to keep their creative independence...
...Budapest journalist who started making pictures in an abandoned shed shortly after World War I, Korda reached the top in Europe, went to Hollywood, and returned after five years-a failure. Three years later, in London, with actors he promised to pay later, he turned out The Private Life of Henry VIII and won the support of Britain's powerful Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. Prudential staked his London Film Productions, Ltd. with cash to turn out topflight pictures (Catherine the Great, Rembrandt, Scarlet Pimpernel...