Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Positive Results." Two months ago French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, who had known both Nenni and Saragat and shared a Pyrenean shelter with Nenni during the Nazi occupation, slipped inconspicuously into Rome. He came shortly after Nenni, in a windy polemic, had expressed horror at Moscow's revelations about Stalin, and implied that Khrushchev was not really much better. At the behest of the Socialist International (which is disturbed by the Nenni Socialists' loyalty to Moscow, the only such partnership in Western Europe), suave, strongly anti-Communist Pierre Commin did his best to persuade his two old friends...
Ironically, it was not the needs of building for an old culture, but requirements raised by the gasoline engine that confronted Architect Stone, 54, with his first problem. "In India it is so hot," Stone explains, "that cars have to be parked under shelter or else they turn into ovens. To get them under cover, we raised the building on a marble platform or podium. We are using a precedent of antiquity. Even the Taj Mahal is built on a great square platform...
...make their rescue easier, a wan moon overhead, and across the water the French liner closing in, with all lights turned on to cheer them. Searchlights fingered across the black water as monocled Captain Raoul de Beaudean maneuvered He de France to the leeward side of Andrea Doria to shelter the ten boats she was lowering from the wind...
Your article on Architect Saarinen was very interesting. [But] what about the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright? A home created by Mr. Wright gives the feeling of shelter and the outdoors. He has incorporated the house as a whole, instead of being chopped up into separate boxes. Through the correct use of the nature of materials, organic simplicity, good structure and no imitation, he has created some of the most beautiful buildings in the world...
...growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker family." This is a snide reference to the family's having lived 4½ years in a bunker (bomb shelter) under the Cologne Cathedral...