Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of courage: that of endurance. When food is short they can live for months on a pound of rice per day-a diet that will not much more than keep a man alive. They live through bitter winters in sleazy, padded cotton uniforms which incubate the louse and shelter all manner of odors. Most have no shoes, but they can march 40 miles a day when pressed. They exist on the equivalent of 65 U.S. cents a month, nearly half of which they have to pay for mess expenses. Furthermore, they endure endless defeat and disappointment without losing their...
Social Responsibility. Said one report: "People must be provided with basic shelter, food, fuel, clothing and health services, even if all the people, including the rich, have to be rationed...
...Denny Shute of Chicago, a 50-to-1 shot. As for the Texans, Nelson shot 73, Hogan 74, Demaret 75, Guldahl 79. On the second day, play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant...
...Night in Lisbon (Paramount). They (Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll) meet in an empty air-raid shelter in London. He is a self-consciously cute American busily flying bombers to Britain. She is a rich and proper English girl dutifully chauffeuring a War Office Earl (Edmund Gwenn). He swears they made this date 10,000 years ago. She is baffled. He makes duck calls at her. She flees...
...Enough has been given so far to completely equip one air-raid shelter, purchase several pair of shoes, and some children's knitted underwear," was the statement from E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, chairman of the drive. All funds collected go to British War Relief to purchase supplies here for shipment...