Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that bread and meat were on the way, once the Axis yoke was cast off. His job was not to stop with victory, but to advance behind United Nations troops with blueprints for the economic reconstruction of Europe's some-day-to-be-unshackled millions. Food, clothes and shelter, Lehman knew, would not alone build a lasting peace. Whole societies would have to be put back on their feet as free-functioning economic units...
...Shelter. City rents in Russia do not vary according to neighborhood but according to monthly income. In Moscow a person in the middle-income bracket pays 2% rubles per square meter of floor space, whether on eight-laned Gorki street or in a converted church, and no one is allowed to occupy over 9 square meters (96 sq. ft.). Since apartments average around 60 square meters of space, single persons and small families have to share apartments with others...
...Japs did not drive any nurses out of any kind of shelter before, during, or after Bataan fell, as General Wainwright had all of the nurses evacuated to Corregidor prior to Bataan's fall...
...battleships shell us with 14-inch shells and everything else. Eight of us huddle in the shelter, sweating and praying. The worst experience I've ever been through in my life. ... It goes on for hour after hour. I begin trembling. It is uncontrollable. Francis McCarthy and I clutch each other's hands for mutual comfort...
...convinced that no one can live under any more of this and still it goes on. One of the men in the shelter sobs and sobs and we cannot help him. Another correspondent buries his face in his hands and sits that way hour after hour. At dawn, when we come out of the ground, filthy and shaken to the heart, five Jap Zeros come over the airfield and start skywriting above us. ... The troops stand gazing up. What are they doing...