Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fletcher's Ice Island, which the U.S. Air Force named T3. In carrying out meteorological and oceanographic experiments on T3, a joint Government-industry team of 19 technicians had endured months of loneliness and Arctic temperatures as low as -60° F. While colleagues partied in a nearby shelter, Electronic Technician Mario Escamilla sat in his insulated trailer-style living module and guarded a 15-gallon jug of homemade raisin wine. When a reveler came by to claim a share, Escamilla brandished a loaded .30-.30 rifle and chased the man away...
...most memorable day I spent in the village. On that day the soldiers dug a large bomb shelter outside my house and reinforced it with logs cut from the nearby forest. I stood in the door of my house watching, and the people from the village gathered to watch too. The young children squealed and scrambled over the rising mounds of dirt, while several old men looked on silently. One of the soldiers pointed to the hole and said to me: "Bedum hai [B-52]." I turned my back and went to my journal...
...bedroom, one-bath houses, which buyers had shunned for years. In Houston, $11,995 buys a two-bedroom home. Pardee Construction Co. sells a two-bedroom model for $16,000 in San Diego. "It's livable," says Vice President Vance Meyer, "but it's more a shelter house than anything else...
...case of nuclear attack. Now that trend is fading. The Bekins moving company, which recently pitched to more than 60 big California companies a $10 million facility it plans to build ("the most advanced corporate survival center yet designed." says the brochure), has so far recruited not a single shelter seeker. This may signify that the nuclear nightmare is waning. Or it may mean that Americans have come to accept the notion that there is no real defense against doomsday, if it ever comes...
Unfortunately, Boesman and Lena is one of those accounts of unlimited woe that try the playgoer's patience. Boesman (James Earl Jones) and Lena (Ruby Dee) are pitiable South African Coloreds whom God and man have forsaken, and whose only shelter is some abandoned junk on the banks of a muddy river basin. Nature wheels around them like an impatient vulture, and death is the only consolation prize that their life has to offer...