Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisis rose when a detachment of Red soldiers and Volkspolizei rounded up a locomotive, its driver and 40 West German laborers on the British side of the border near Helmstedt and locked them up in a train shed, on the grounds that they were trespassing on Soviet territory. Three bewildered anglers fishing in a border pond were also caught in the net. Major Colin Ball of the British Frontier Inspection Service drove up briskly and demanded their release. "This is the British zone," he said. "No," answered the Russian officer who had stepped out of the woods to meet...
...darkness of early morning in Washington, Britain's Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks pulled on a topcoat over his pink pajamas and, along with Lady Franks and their two daughters, hurried out to watch a $10,000 fire raze a tool shed on the embassy grounds. The fireside group was soon joined by a neighbor, New Zealand's Ambassador Leslie Knox Munro, who for the occasion wore striped pajamas and a loud Paisley bathrobe...
Married. Johnnie Ray, 25, sobbing composer-crooner (The Little White Cloud that Cried); and Marilyn Morrison, 22, brunette daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner; in Manhattan. Most of the wedding party shed a few tears, but the groom was all smiles until he broke down to sing a chorus of Cry for a teen-age delegate from a Brooklyn fan club...
...blankets of water over the area, managed to shield nearby film vaults and buildings. The firemen had plenty of help. Actors Burt Lancaster, Ray Bolger, Steve Cochran, Gordon Mac-Rae, and studio Vice President Jack Warner dashed about like real-life heroes, saving whatever they could from the burning shed. In three hours it was all over. The fire (cause undetermined) had destroyed $1,500,000 in buildings and equipment over an area of eight acres. It was the biggest studio blaze in Hollywood's history...
...last week, his civilian clothes hidden under his hospital uniform, John dropped in to the Broadmoor infirmary, complaining of illness. An attendant went for a doctor. Left alone in the room, John seized a blanket, made a beeline for an open window, dropped on to a shed roof, threw the blanket over a ten-foot wall and slid down to freedom. A villager spotted his exit and gave chase, but John eluded him. No siren alerted the village to the escape: the Ministry of Health does not believe in such devices. Soon afterward the lunatic, clad in a dapper pinstripe...