Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notice that the sidewalks would be wider if the sandbags could be removed, that the skyline was neater before the bombs fell. A car starting up suddenly might make him jump. His children, when they hid in closets and crawled under chairs, informed him pertly that they were playing "shelter." But almost no one said: "You wouldn't know there...
...used their shirts and trousers to bail out the mountainous combers breaking over the raft. One wave flipped the raft completely over. Then the men lost everything, including their clothes. Exhausted, when the storm subsided, they were stark naked. When the sun came out again, their only shelter was a tiny piece of fabric ripped off the oar pocket. On the 33rd day the raft capsized once more. "For the first time," Dixon said, "I was ready to give up." His nerves were so frayed that he flew into violent rages. But Aldrich and Pastula only stared at him. Then...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's books were stored in underground vaults under his home-usable for blackout reading if Grandson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana decides it is necessary to use the vaults as an air-raid shelter...
...ripper's first victim had tried to fight him off, was dragged into a street air-raid shelter and disposed of there. The police got his fingerprints from the skin of her neck, also from beer bottles in the second victim's flat, also from Margaret's handbag. When they made their arrest last week, four women had perished in five days, all strangled, all mutilated...
...Ridley Park's except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...