Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time," said Cowell, "we were becoming expert in the roving life. We achieved fabulous success at wheedling sleeping places." Often, on country roads they had simply set up their cots under the stars and slept where they were. In cities they had made motels of many an empty shelter, such as the half-finished garage they occupied in Vienna. Gradually, however, they developed a technique of cadging better quarters. Seeking out a local inhabitant, explained Cowell, "we'd just ask for some little corner to put our cots in; then gradually we'd move up into...
...decorative frieze of state seals between the first and second floors and for a great seal of the U.S. above the main entrance. The final result is a U-shaped building that will house the embassy staff in the center, USIS and consular offices in either wing, and shelter a formal garden court (over an underground garage). Londoners generally were enthusiastic. Wrote the architectural correspondent of London's Times: "A welcome acquisition to the rapidly changing face of Mayfair...
Civil Defense officials say that the basis for the change in policy, from taking shelter to complete evacuation, is the new estimated casualty figures for cities filled with people if a nuclear attack occurs. They point out that blast effects of the bombs and contamination would make emptying of target area mandatory...
...bandit-ridden "Triangle of Hunger," where he had lived as a boy. There, in the fishing village of Trappeto, with his own meager savings and a few small contributions from outside, he put up a collection of shacks and shanties which he called "the Hamlet of God" to provide shelter for the area's neediest cases. He married an impoverished widow with five children; together they adopted five more childen...
...clouds broke over the countryside around Williamstown, Mass.. five Williams College students out for a walk scurried for the shelter of a haystack. There, while the rain droned on, they earnestly discussed three topics: religion, Asia, and their future. Before the storm ended on that summer day in 1806, they had decided to dedicate themselves to the work of bringing the Gospel "to a barricaded heathendom" in foreign lands...