Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawn, which could be applied to the future. Example: "Even a first class military power-rugged and resilient as Germany was-cannot live long under full-scale and free exploitation of air weapons over the heart of its territory." The Germans put some industries underground. They built concrete shelters able to withstand direct hits. One shelter in Hamburg, named the "Holy Ghost," housed 60,000 people. But all such efforts were in vain...
...Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
...strengthening the Diet and weakening the Army and Navy. The forms and manners of party rule were not new to the Japs, whose Diet (Parliament) is 55 years old. But the feel and substance of freedom were entirely new. The plain people, worried about food and work and shelter, had little time for minshu shugi (democracy) as the Americans understood...
Hungry citizens of Akita, in northwestern Honshu, complained that nine days after the surrender the community vegetable garden was torn up to make way for a new air-raid shelter. City officials explained that funds for the shelter had been provided by the central government, and that spending the money for anything else would create a difficult bookkeeping problem...
Take Teddy White, for example. As dean of the Chungking correspondents, he was bombed from house to house and shelter to shelter all through the worst of the Jap air raids (during one horrible bombing the body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). This week, when he landed with our first airborne troops on the sacred soil of Dai Nippon, he must have been comparing the rubble of Tokyo with the ruins he had seen so often in Chungking and Liuchow and Nanning...