Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's County Hall, debate was heated, committee meetings solemn with high hope and great responsibility. Hard working delegates, unable to get taxis after late night sessions, stoically bedded down in an A.R.P. shelter. In spite of all this earnest effort, UNRRA's governing council finished its semiannual meeting almost exactly where it had started...
...Chungking TIME'S office was nothing but bamboo and mud and contained the biggest cockroaches in town until it burned down. It had a fine bomb shelter and Teddy White was sort of used to it; now he lives in one room at the Press Hostel, where he pays something like 50,000 Chinese dollars a month for room and board. TIME'S office in Moscow is also just one big room - this one with a balcony on the fourth floor of the rambling old Metropole Hotel (ten minutes from the Foreign Office, five minutes from the Kremlin...
...they also found they were not quite in that land nor of it. (Their new home was declared an "Emergency Refugee Shelter" so its guests would not be subject to immigration laws.) Quartered in old Fort Ontario behind a fence of restrictions, they could get only six-hour passes. They could not travel farther than 20 miles. They had to be in at night. Their barracks apartments, partitioned with wallboard, were better than a concentration camp, but had little privacy. They shared bathrooms and the mess hall...
...Russian zone the press announced big news: with Russian blessing, the capital's four political parties had forged the Anti-Fascist Democratic Union. The new German popular front had agreed on a five-point program: 1) cleansing Germany of Hitlerite remnants; 2) speedy reconstruction to provide work, bread, shelter and clothes; 3) a democratic state; 4) freedom of thought and worship; 5) recognition of Germany's reparation debts...
...race became a roller-coaster scramble for the shelter of the Michigan shore. One yacht made it the hard way, running aground and breaking up. Another snapped her mainmast. Distress flares shot up. When noses were counted at dawn, 34 badly battered boats had made it back to Port Huron and points north. The other four had doggedly refused to give...