Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps even your correspondent and the "elegant" Parisiennes would not feel imaginative after a night in an Anderson shelter, emerging the next morning probably to find that they have not even any "unimaginative" clothes left...
...shore. The big rockets, taking off with a coughing roar, scorch the beach and plow up vegetation behind them. Many 20-mm. autoguns are hammering like runaway riveters and weaving red lines of tracer shells alongshore like thin angry fingers prying and poking into every patch that might shelter an enemy...
...million Londoners are homeless, hundreds of thousands are living in "acute discomfort." Lack of labor, materials, time have made it impossible to rebuild wrecked houses. This winter at least 10,000 Nissen-type Army huts will dot the London landscape as emergency shelters. But they will shelter only a fraction of the homeless...
Besotted soldiers went to the shelter openings, called on the men to come out. There was a burst of machine-gun fire as each emerged-the parish priest, village officials, farmers, townsmen, 23 men in all. Women and children, cowering in the tunnels, were not molested (but one infant was killed by a fire bomb tossed into a shelter...
...when you're at work you feel fairly all right because you've got a fair shelter and a good roof spotter elected by the men so he's trustworthy. And once you're asleep in your own Anderson it's not too bad because you're so tired you don't give a damn anyway. The bad time is the in-between time. From the moment you knock off you are on edge. Christ, it's all very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there...