Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bubbling Joy. The book's message is told in narrative form, purportedly by an unnamed peasant who wanders through Russia and Siberia with a knapsack of dried bread for food and the charity of man for shelter. His first concern is to find out how one may fulfill the famed Biblical admonition to "pray without ceasing." He consults a number of authorities, only to come away emptyhearted until at last he meets a holy man who teaches him that to pray without ceasing is to pray the Prayer of Jesus. "The continuous interior Prayer of Jesus," the holy...
Still determined to help his father in his business, Dave studied to be a veterinarian at the College of the Pacific at Stockton, Calif. But he switched to music after one year. Dave and two roommates moved into a cellar they called "the bomb shelter," which was soon embroiled in a continual jam session. Dave began playing jazz piano in nightclubs. He also played on a weekly campus radio show whose co-director was a pretty sophomore named Iola Marie Whitlock. Dave stomped his feet so hard as he played that the noise almost drowned out the music...
...construction in front of the CRIMSON building is almost complete: The news board has virtually finished its subway to Wellesley, the editorial board has built its bomb-proof encyclopedia shelter, the business board has constructed a surplus-assets vault, and the photo board an automatic sprinkling system...
...Poor. Since Japan's imperial palace burned down in 1945, Hirohito and Nagako have lived on the palace grounds in an unimpressive, unpretentious 14-room house that began its life as an airraid shelter. Each day they breakfast on oatmeal, toast and bacon, have chicken or steak for lunch and only consent to Japanese dishes at supper. The Emperor's favorite food is persimmons, and he keeps careful track of every persimmon that enters the palace lest someone make away with it. A teetotaler who hates tea, Hirohito cheers himself with lukewarm water when guests are imbibing stronger...
...event of an air-raid "alert," the President and his staff duck into an underground shelter right on the White House grounds...