Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors and orderlies left, took shelter behind the concrete walls, watched through twin-paned windows resistant to radiation as the machine churned up its million-volt charge, sent a stream of X rays into the cancerous portion of Dulles' abdomen for a full minute. Because Dulles was not nauseated, the doctors rated the treatment "well tolerated," agreed that if he could stand it, he would get up to five minutes' radiation every day except Sunday for the next three to four weeks...
Your caves of Rosenburg Hill story [Jan. 5] brought back many memories, as I was one of the first to be taken into Belgium's ancient quarried hillside honeycomb in 1944. The townspeople of nearby Maastricht had used one small segment of these quarries as an air raid shelter capable of housing 70,000 people easily. The Queen Wilhelmina art collection, including Rembrandt's The Nightwatch, was stored away in them with full cooperation from the Germans, who never realized that running right alongside the air raid shelter and art sanctuary was a path to freedom for Allied...
Griswold's letter presented four chief reasons for discarding the controversial provision. First, he recalled instances when educational processes have "been distorted and disrupted by forces operating under the shelter of test oaths...
...Simplest and most basic motivation of the drive into space is man's enduring and insatiable drive to explore and know his environment. Space is a challenge simply because, like Mount Everest, it is there. Hundreds of millions of years ago, earth's life ventured from the shelter of the oceans, crept slowly and painfully out on land, into the hostile air and searing sun. Man is venturing forth again into a new element. From the bottom of the air ocean where he has lived so long, the emptiness overhead looks almost impossibly hostile. Its vacuum kills...
...Captain Bennie Castillo, 35, of the Strategic Air Command, fired the first Thor ever launched by a military crew. After prolonged preliminaries and one false start, Bennie Castillo turned the key that started the countdown. With cool efficiency, his five-man team rolled back a hangar-like shelter, elevated the bird, force-fed it with liquid oxygen, sent it soaring in 19 min. after the launch command was given (ultimate goal: 15 min.). The shot traveled the predetermined 1,450 miles over the Pacific, was rated a nuclear bull's eye by hitting within five miles of its target...