Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...done theater [set] construction before and I like working with my hands. There's really something nice about building a rudimentary shelter with your hands...
...roof of the Sukkah, called the "skhak," emphasizes the impermanent nature of the shelter--it consists solely of straw mats, which let in rain and starlight at night...
...vast colonies in caves or trees, some nest in spider webs; others fashion "tents" out of leaves. In southern India, for example, the male short-nosed fruit bat spends as long as two months painstakingly chewing the veins of leaves and palm fronds until they collapse into a shelter that will house him and a harem of as many as 20 females...
...room in the imperial air-raid shelter was virtually unventilated and sweltering when the Emperor arrived as the meeting began and took his seat on a small dais. The assembled leaders, headed by the Supreme Council's Big Six, as they were called, listened again to a reading of the Potsdam Declaration and then began debating three possible responses to the terms it imposed. One plan, favored by Suzuki and Togo, called for an acceptance of the Potsdam demands, with the sole condition that Hirohito and the imperial dynasty be retained in Japan...
...elderly refugees from that city. But Ministry of Defense sources in Belgrade told TIME that the Bosnian army special units have become the major stumbling block to the Serb capture of Zepa, an isolated mountain town whose fall would force its 10,000 to 16,000 residents to seek shelter in other government-held towns. Reports Barnes: "Muslim army units -- about 3,000 men -- have escaped from Srebrenica and are trying to make their way inside Zepa. They've hit the Serb right flank badly. About 1,100 are already inside bolstering the defenses, and another 1,900 are making...