Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Cyril Walker, 56, wispy, hard-drinking golf professional, who beat out Bobby Jones to win the U.S. Open Championship in 1924; of pleural pneumonia; in a Hackensack, N.J. jail cell, where he had gone for shelter. After winning the Open, English-born Walker gradually drank himself out of big-time competition, at one time worked as a caddy, ended up a dishwasher...
Digging down through the debris before finding Egbert was like journeying into the past with a time machine. The cave was a very desirable parcel of Stone Age real estate. Family after family had lived and worked in its shelter, gradually raising the floor level with dirt and refuse. In the upper layers tools and weapons were comparatively sophisticated. Grinding stones showed that Neolithic exquisites had used pigments for painting or cosmetics. Lower down, artifacts were cruder...
...Face Shelter Problem...
...added that although considerable advances in educational facilities had been achieved in some scattered places, contributions are still needed not for any academic luxuries, or even printed books, but food and shelter...
Often on the verge of complete collapse, making no secret of his homosexuality, he lived in furnished rooms on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, or Grove Street in Greenwich Village, finding temporary shelter in tumbledown farmhouses, eating his meals at lunch counters and cheap restaurants...