Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where was the Congressional committee? Looking worried. Congressman An drew Jackson May of Kentucky and Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina emerged from under the grandstand shelter. But still missing was Senator Morris Sheppard, chairman of the joint committee, who was flying from Washington...
Everywhere Britons again carried their gas masks and the whole Air Raid Precautions system was pepped up afresh. "If you are caught in the open and cannot reach shelter," advised the Home Office, "lie down and cover your head with your arms." Newspapers urged the people to keep cool if & when death dropped out of the skies; told them that the one you hear doesn't get you, that Britain has plenty of fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns to drive off aerial Blitzkriegers...
...sharp sentence Lloyd George had already discounted much of Winston Churchill's effectiveness. "I hope," purred World War I's Prime Minister, "[the First Lord] won't allow himself to be converted into an air-raid shelter to keep splinters from hitting his colleagues...
...something, you know," said the ice-cold voice from the shadows. Its funereal tones brightened, then, a trifle. "Food, shelter, and clothing," it chanted derisively. Vag cringed. He knew that in a month Commencement was coming; it was going to seem like a great armored door shutting behind him when he left college finally. Have to get a job doing something. Well, then, he'd be free to salvage civilization. Young man; no responsibilities. Political work, newspaper campaigns, social work with Vag as the driving force behind it all. Food, shelter, clothing? A sandwich, his garret, his leather-elbowed jacket...
...pipe, damn it, was almost a symbol; he knocked out its ashes vehemently. Vag turned toward the easy chair and was ready to parrot back that you've got to be something, you know; the wife and kids; food, shelter, clothing; life in a groove. But the voice had changed for the better. It was a kindly voice Vag heard. "By the way, son, if they all turn you down, you might even come in with me down at the office. Start as a runner, of course, at fifteen per." Even though he had heard that speech before, Vag didn...