Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile trip back from Greenwich Island and Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
Marx's only lasting comforts were algebra (his favorite form of escape) and Jenny. Protectively, she used to call him "my big child." Once, when he briefly returned to Trier, he wrote: "I have been making a daily pilgrimage to the old Westphalen house . . . which used to shelter my sweetheart. And every day people ask me right and left about the quondam 'most beautiful girl' in Trier, the 'Queen of the ball.' It's damned agreeable for a man to find that his wife lives on as an 'enchanted princess...
...Karl Marx as he sat in his easy chair. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery under a flat stone. At the grave, Friedrich Engels said: "The greatest of living thinkers ceased to think. . . . He discovered the simple fact . . . that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion...
...auditorium, therefore, Sanders has ben held firm against any and all attempts to mould it into some form approaching that of a theater. It has been a crude, and temporary shelter for student dramatics; and at that, the best available. Its apparent demise as such leaves Harvard as the only major university in the country without a theater...
...posse fanned out over the frozen countryside. The hunted convicts sought shelter. Werner Schwartzmiller, 35, who vas doing 40 years for a murder attempt, chose Laurence Oliver's farmhouse. There he held the Olivers at bay until plucky Mrs. Oliver, firmly clasping a claw hammer beneath a capacious apron, worked her way close enough to bash him on the head...