Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ivory tower, teams up with the brutal janitor of the building to throw Kien out and sell his priceless library. Half-crazy, half-beaten to a pulp by his elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter in a dive inhabited solely by petty racketeers and prostitutes. Within a few weeks he has been fleeced of his last penny, beaten up again and reduced to skin & bones. When at last Kien's brother, a famed psychiatrist, gets wind of the professor's plight and restores...
Their twin-engined Mariner, out on a photographic mission, had crashed and exploded on a 1,000-ft. plateau of snow and ice. The six survivors had food, drink and fuel, a half-burned fuselage for shelter. When at last the rescue plane appeared, they got directions by signal light to walk to the nearest open water, eight miles away. A trail over the ice was blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge...
...London's lonely, foggy Wimbledon Common, and Police Constable Lamb, leaping over the curb to safety, glimpsed the struggling couple in the front seat. A few hours later, detectives in raincoats were standing over the blonde's dead body-while Percy, hatless, bloody, hysterical, ran desperately for shelter in the myriad streets of London...
...automobile needed repairing, but when he closed up, early Christmas morning, he decided it would have to wait. He took $1,500 in small bills, headed for the grim and grimy sidewalks of the Bowery. He walked up to a knot of whiskery derelicts standing in the shelter of a doorway. "Merry Christmas," he said, holding out some money. "Have some dough...
...mayor of Louisville had undertaken a backbreaking job with breathtaking plans: 1,200,000 new dwelling units in 1946, another 1,500,000 next year. His latest figures counted approximately 895,000 already started. But nearly half of this paper shelter was still uncompleted; over a third was makeshift housing, not permanent building. Home-hungry veterans hunted in vain for the $6,000 house of Wyatt's first dreams...