Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called for a tank, rode atop it in a rain of fire as it sprayed the hedgerows. The tank driver was wounded. Paddy crawled down, went forward afoot. A sniper's bullet got him as he led his patrol into the shelter of a farmhouse...
...business went well. He received stolen goods, dealt in prostitution from time to time, and once took a brief flyer in kidnapping. He invested in real estate, operated a chromium-trimmed bar-&-grill called the Bomb Shelter. But basically he was a gambling executive...
Bumped Heads. By night, the London householder was governed by the menace. Thousands went to the deep public shelters. In thousands of backyards the Anderson shelter, neglected since the bad days of the blitz, had been patched up, its water-soaked earthen floor resurfaced...
...flat-dweller wrestled with his Morrison shelter-a flat, tablelike, metal affair, raised from the floor to admit mattress and sleeper, its sides wire-meshed against flying furniture, bricks-and glass. The bumped head (from mismeasured diving under the Morrison) was no longer worth even a casual remark...
...time the drinks have arrived Sam and George have hit on a hobby -brushing up Sam's American history. As the series continues, Sam and George meet at Sam's house, at George's shack in the woods (this mail-order shelter quite natu rally sets them talking about the pioneer log cabin), and gradually they trace the rise of the Republic to world power and world responsibilities. A specially prepared history atlas of 17 maps is available to listeners...