Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet all night going from fire to charnel fire, she drove outside Chungking in a truck to find her evacuated charges. She found the children marching along the road, the older ones leading the younger, urchins carrying infants. Madame commandeered trucks and got the miniature army to shelter...
...terrors of war invaded the College's most historic course yesterday morning, turning what started out to be a normal English A examination into a mental air raid shelter...
...definite, however, that when these advanced course students are called to active duty, as enlisted reservists or voluntary inductees, their expenses for food, clothing, and shelter will be borne by the government and they will be given the pay of enlisted men of the Army...
...psychotic soldier is, simply, more easily reached than that of a well-balanced man. In World War I, men's nerves snapped from inactive confinement to trenches under shellfire; in World War II, they break down from long-continued bombardment and strafing without the advantage of shelter. (Artillery fire anxiety is usually worse than that from aerial bombing-when a big gun gets the range, a man begins to feel that each shell has his number...
...Russian bank where the bridge was to be built was low, flat and easily seen by the Germans atop their high, sheer bank. Engineer Sosnovkin therefore decided to build his bridge backwards from the German side, beginning it in the shelter of the high bank. On a night when clouds hid the moon and snow shrouded the river, the strongest swimmers crossed with the foundation stones in stretchers and in their tunics. Others swam with the logs. Blue-black with cold, praying that the ice along the bank would not crack and betray them by the sound, they laid...