Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the Aug. 19 copy of TIME with me into an air-raid shelter, to read during the raid. Have you enough imagination to know what I and my friends felt, upon reading your piece about "Britain's Vulnerable Midlands," and seeing the accompanying map? That, and your piece about the war in British Somaliland, should tell your German friends practically all they want to know about us, their enemy...
...there was a greater reason for the President's loneliness. Few had sought and none had won a third election to the Presidency. Knowing U. S. history as a boy knows batting averages, Franklin Roosevelt knew that he had left the shelter of precedent, had pushed off on a course without chart or landmark. Through the vapor that is the future he could steer only by the North Star of his own purpose...
...This is the cycle year for influenza. ... In every shelter I've been in during the past six weeks I've heard that hacking 'shelter cough' and the wheezy sleep of the bronchial cases." Writer Calder advanced a program of shelter-life improvement and said: "The War Office must see this not only as a social measure but as a first-class military issue." He called for immediate evacuation from London of women, children, aged & infirm; for reform of shelter life to include better sanitary facilities, daily inspection by medical officers and cleansing by trained squads...
Conditions in London's upper-and middle-class shelter districts were not so grim as Writer Calder described. But raw weather and lack of fuel last week ended the "sleep trains" which used to take those Londoners who could afford them into safe, quiet countrysides. As for London's slum areas - where hunting cats prowled hills of rubble by day and humans crouched by night under railway and sewer arches-Writer Calder's war lilies were anything but gilded...
Finding himself all alone in a country where he would be condemned to death immediately were he caught, Haratune sought the protection of his old friend in Harpoot, the wife of the Chief of Police. She not only gave him shelter in her own house, but positively refused to let him leave, thus imprisoning him as effectively as formerly...