Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerfully built man of 48 crouched in a London air-raid shelter, trembling and sighing like a furnace. After the all-clear, he stubbornly refused to come out. "I'm sorry, girl," he called to his wife, who was upbraiding him, "I can't 'elp it." His neighbors were all amazed by his "cowardice," for he had an excellent record in World...
...haphazard, seemingly crazy raid by only a few bombers, blasting a number of private homes, killing many citizens with a direct hit on a shelter holding 120. Wags suggested that the Nazis put on the show for excitable, visiting Columnist Dorothy Thompson, who attended it from her fifth-floor windows in the Savoy Hotel (see p. 21). But it was a poor show and after it Columnist Thompson snorted: "It was . . . not nearly so noisy as a New York thunderstorm...
...Hamburg but in Cologne. Thousands of women and children have been removed from Hamburg; its harbor has been almost cleared of shipping. In Cologne the great Gothic cathedral stands over a shambles. The center of the city is in ruins, and a terrified populace huddles nightly in a huge shelter under the public square...
...sank a shaft into the mound to look for bodies. While they were working, "a smallish, quick-moving man came up and asked: 'Where's my rabbits?' He received no answer. 'Four I 'ad,' he said, 'kept 'em in the-Anderson [shelter], and this morning I saw two of 'em up the top of Beaton Street.' Ford wondered if his warden's training should have included elementary rabbit catching...
Without panic Muscovites went about organizing air-raid shelters and A.R.P. units, but the shelters themselves were scarce and hastily thrown together at ground level, offering little real protection. For Soviet higher-ups was reserved Moscow's only safe shelter, the 100-foot-deep Kirovskaya Metro station...