Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power. Land-based aircraft from the island struck the first blow and gave the Jap enough to make him turn back. But carrier-based craft, launched as the Jap retired, did even greater damage. The carrier planes (plus Army Flying Fortresses) drove the Jap back into the shelter of the Mandates and the cover of thick weather with only the remnants of his mighty invasion fleet...
...daily more fierce in the occupied provinces of China. Bloodcurdling stories of mass massacres seeped out of newly occupied Chekiang Province. In the northern Hopei-Shantung-Shansi triangle the Japs tried a scorched-earth policy of burning out villages and frightening civilians from whom guerrilla bands receive food and shelter. But in Shanghai the Japanese had been busy trying to make the Chinese like their puppet government...
...clock, the Navy was drilling in the Yard, and many people were standing around watching them. Several classes were in session in Sever and the other Halls. But within a very few minutes of the siren's wall, the Yard was cleared, passers-by and students were sent to shelter, and the Yard ARP force was in good working order...
...them, sick at heart, from beloved mountain valleys thick with arbutus and carefully laid out for the husbanding of vineyards and olive groves within sight of the slopes of Mt. Olympus and the plains of Troy. At the islands where their boat touched, peasants fed them and gave them shelter...
...group began a trek across the Illecillewaet Neve and four members reached the Neve where they were joined the next evening by two more of the party. Running into extremely bad weather here which proved too much for their primus stoves, the entire party was driven to the shelter of their tents...