Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, while a soprano sang to a forbidden lover, "Nothing in the world will ever part us." She snatched moments alone with Peter Townsend, whenever she could, at the homes of friends brave enough to risk disapproval by giving them shelter...
Cops set up a makeshift 600-bed dormitory to shelter the meaner criminals, gave temporary freedom to lesser lawbreakers...
...nation's high-ranking jazz artists, J. J. Johnson and Trombonist Kai Winding, presently head the slightly cool program in Storyville's luxurious blackout shelter...
...Midwest artists, most of whom shelter in academic circles, a bigger buying audience and broader tastes are heartening news for the future. Says Norman A. Geske, acting director of the University of Nebraska Art Galleries: "In our one big show, there is always a rumpus over something that's considered too daring. But on the whole, you can bring almost anything into Lincoln. I think we are abreast of the folks in New York City, and, in fact, some New Yorkers tell me we're ahead of them...
...Andersonville went perhaps 50,000 men. Its 20-odd acres were stripped of trees, and there was no shelter except the crude tents that could be fashioned from coats and blankets. Guards were ordered to shoot prisoners who strayed beyond a certain line. The sick died where they lay. Those prisoners who carried corpses for burial beyond the wall were considered lucky: it meant a little fresh air. After the war, the man who ran Andersonville, Captain Henry Wirz, was tried and executed for war crimes...