Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visitors from 90 foreign countries seemed to agree. So many sharp-eyed Japanese and Germans armed with sketch pads and cameras crowded around that some of the exhibits were hastily snatched back into shelter...
...September day in 1938, Papa David Solomon of NBC's Life Can Be Beautiful gave shelter in his secondhand bookstore to a teen-age slum girl named Chichi and put her to bed on a pallet in the rear of his shop. This week, 15 years later, Chichi is only about five years older and she is still camped in Papa David's back room...
Gratitude. In Tucson, Ariz., provided with shelter, warm food, and a new coat by the Salvation Army, Charles Demitus, 35, got a new start in life by robbing the Army's local headquarters and cashing $53 in forged Salvation Army checks...
...tail end of the Communist Party's afternoon parade came 2,000 olive-skinned Algerians, marching in disciplined formation and bearing posters demanding the release from jail of Algerian Nationalist Leader Messali Hadj. At the Place de la Nation, a sudden rainstorm sent paraders and bystanders rushing for shelter. When police tried to hold back the stampede, the Algerians overwhelmed the barricades and began attacking with stones, bottles, chairs and broken barriers. Riot squads came sirening to the scene, threw a cordon around the Place de la Nation, opened fire with rifles. When it was all over, six Algerians...
...shelter is a grey-thatched, Cambridge-educated Arab lawyer named Musa al-Alami. To his boys he is known only as "Ammi" (Uncle). His friends and enemies have frequently called him the "Don Quixote of the Arab world...