Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy concluded that most of the external damage came from the dust on the islanders' skins and in their hair. More clothing, better shelter and prompt decontamination would have reduced it. None of the Marshallese died. Fatal internal damage was prevented by removing them from their contaminated island-just in time. Probably 50 more roentgens would have killed at least some of them...
...during three consecutive Aprils before he found the wood grouse fighting in a satisfactory light. He once waited 28 hours beneath a tree in order to capture a lynx when it came down, and he built 36 kinds of covert before he discovered an adequate way to hide and shelter himself and his camera. The film took three years to complete, cost more ($120,000) than Sucksdorff had in pocket. His chief backer: Dag Hammarskjold. Secretary-General...
...most astonishing international show in years. Emerging from the protection of the Kremlin's wall and the shelter of the Kremlin's controlled press, Russia's top men seemed inept, uncertain, boorish. Yugoslavs watched the antics of Nikita Khrushchev with amazement. Western diplomats, remembering the remote, inscrutable, implacable Joseph Stalin, had to keep reminding themselves that this garrulous little man was his successor...
...Liberals and Democrats is in hot water at home, which weakens his ability to deal with the Russians, but may tempt him to dally with them in a reckless last-minute bid for popularity. But Hatoyama must also ask himself whether Japan can afford to quit the U.S. shelter. The U.S. spends about $800 million a year in Japan, and provides its only real defense...
Rikitake set up a permanent observation station in an old air-raid shelter dug into Mihara's western slope. In October 1951 his instruments showed that the vol cano's magnetism was slowly weakening...