Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magic & Ballads. The program got under way at 10 a.m. at a wooden speaking platform under an enormous frame shelter. There was room for 300 fan-waving listeners under the shed, and a public-address system rigged to a station wagon kept the rest of the ridge informed. A magician performed for the small fry, and Pleaz Mobley, the Eighth District's Republican candidate for Congress, sang the old English ballads that the hillfolk love...
...carried in a tender: a good-sized ship tethered close to the platform. Pipes and other heavy objects are swung across by a sling running on thick cables. Liquid necessities travel in flexible hoses. If a hurricane approaches, the tender can take all hands on board and run for shelter. A rig of this type, belonging to Gulf Oil Corp., is now drilling off Corpus Christi, Texas in 67 feet of water, the depth record...
There, early this month, came the local members of the Church of God, bent on a three-week revival for the healing of bodies and the saving of souls. They put up an open-sided shelter roofed over with sweetgum boughs, and covered the clay ground with sawdust. They filled the place with chairs and benches, put up a little pulpit and installed two big amplifiers...
...Everything Is O.K." Wood picked up their equipment, dug a flat ledge and pitched the tent. With Viereck's help, he dragged Argus to shelter and then tramped out a signal in the snow: HELP BROKEN...
Cozy Evening at the Garden. Last week the women of Greater New York were out in force to welcome Liberace to Madison Square Garden. While boxing fans withdrew trembling to the shelter of their favorite saloons, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 jammed the Garden; about 80% were women.* With a roll of drums, the crash of a gong, and a harp glissando, Liberace bounced onto the stage, wearing a snowy-white dress suit (later he changed into a gold lamé jacket...