Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lecturing on civilian defense, Colonel Farraday "showed us how to work a stirrup pump and advised us all to get one, adding that there are none to be had anywhere just now. He also explained how to put up an Anderson steel shelter and said that none were being issued in this part of the country...
...Charles, wandering among the book shops in Boston, or dodging around the coast in a dinghy.... Today, if I am not in the foundry, the machineshop or the drawing office until midnight, I am at home figuring out some new precaution against air-raids, erecting a steel shelter for fire-watching on the roof, propping up the basement to strengthen it, or sharpening axes and replenishing the emergency lamps with oil, and many other jobs which, if sinister, prove, nevertheless, to be interesting...
...Quartermaster Corps generally did its prime job: providing the best housing, whatever the cost, in time to shelter emergency soldiers. But the sad and overweighing fact was that the Quartermaster Corps job was not topflight...
...Nourishment, clothing, shelter, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone in the nation...
...Physical exhaustion may suddenly bring on mild anxiety neuroses in people with long-standing ailments. For instance, a man with anemia who fought fires all night was too tired to sleep. He was quiet, controlled, somewhat despondent. At a shelter he was given rest, food and drink. Immediately he began to tremble, broke out in a cold sweat, groaned and paced the floor...