Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedy she brightens has her seeking shelter, during a thunderstorm, in the country house of a famous, something-over-40 actor (John Loder). It has her staying on, as his secretary, after the sun comes out; and it poses the problem-an old one for broadish comedy-of how long an attractive and attracted man and girl can live together without living together. Before uniting them legally at the final curtain, Playwright Herbert keeps them apart a bit lewdly for almost three acts. He manages to squeeze a few amusing moments out of their immaculate proximity by shamelessly tossing...
Insulated from the 20th Century by the desert and by neglect, they still live, for the most part, as they did in the 1860s. Their women wear flowing skirts copied from those worn by wives of frontier cavalry officers. Their shelter is still the "hogan," a windowless, one-room log structure with a hole in the dirt-covered roof to let out smoke. They still live far from streams because unfriendly spirits inhabit them; most must haul their water from one to 15 miles...
...Concentration of Authority." Caught in a crossfire from Gaullists and Communists, Premier Ramadier blasted back in both directions and looked behind him for shelter. Shelter there was: immediate stopgap aid from the U.S., Marshall Plan aid behind it, unwavering support from a large and determined minority of Frenchmen who are not yet impelled to choose between De Gaulle and Stalin...
Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick is a farsighted-often a gloomily farsighted-man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower's lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...Shelter...