Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bluma Berman's parents had been killed in Poland and her husband had died a prisoner. Bluma had told a U.S. soldier, while in an UNRRA shelter for displaced persons, that she believed she still had an uncle and aunt, Max and Jenne Grossman, living somewhere in New York. The soldier wrote to his sister in Pennsylvania, the sister wrote to Travelers' Aid in New York. Travelers' Aid looked up every Grossman in the New York phone book. When Bluma stepped off the boat, Max and Jenne Grossman were on the pier...
...white mountain and green valleys were as beautiful as reported, he cabled, and three grassy, fenced-off holes in the ground-whence Ko, Yang and Pu supposedly had come-were still being tended and revered in a small park (not far from a more recent Jap-built air-raid shelter). In recent centuries a permanent male population had been established on the island, but women still outnumbered the men. The old native description of the island-"Too much wind, too much rock, too much woman"-still applied, though a male revolution was on the march...
Technical Sergeant Gus T. Brown, Luling, Tex.: "I landed halfway down a mountainside and found myself buried to the waist in snow. ... I kept warm by making a shelter of my parachute. I saw a light across the valley and started yoo-hooing and heard an answer. Someone called 'Amerikano?' We turned and said 'yes' and they hollered back 'Chetniks.' They came running down toward us and we hollered with joy, so they started kissing us and we started kissing them, beard...
...Milan's famed La Scala in August 1943, all that was left was the stage and four walls. Last week La Scala had been put back together again (at a cost of $350,000 that a lot of Italians felt could have been better spent on bread and shelter). To its reconstructed podium stepped little, white-haired Arturo Toscanini, 79, who had scored some of his greatest triumphs there...
...great deal more than a picnic session for Freshmen and high school teachers. The veteran waits impatiently to learn how wide a selection of courses he will be offered and who will teach them. The married veteran, concerned more with material things, finds that, unless he can produce shelter where there is none, he must forsake either wife or education...