Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford station wagon rolled slowly through the Brussels traffic, drew up in the Marolles quarter. Three men climbed out: a cleric, a middle-aged official and a young man in a brown raincoat. They looked at the miserable shelter of a rags-and-flowers merchant, walked on through one of the more squalid slums of Europe. In one street they met a group of children. "It's the King!" cried a child. "How do you know it's the King?" "It must be. He has such nice shoes." The children shyly touched the young man's raincoat...
...Lebanon's fisherfolk that staved off further disaster. Hero of the hour was Radwan Baltaji, the leathery little chief of Beirut's harbor pilots. On the second day, Radwan, in his jaunty red tarboosh, breached the raging surf in his tiny pilot boat and maneuvered into the shelter of the British cruiser Kenya, which had raced to the rescue from Suez. Using the cruiser's steel bulk as a floating breakwater, Radwan swerved broadside to the waves and slid into the quiet water in the lee of the wreck. Sixty-three women & children climbed down to safety...
...must lead a winter march down the Amur River to set up the industrial city of Komsomolsk. Without proper food or clothing, the march of the Young Communists turns into a pointless sacrifice; Soloviev's description of how they follow the Amur, dig holes in the ground for shelter, and perish from cold and hunger, is a masterpiece of reporting...
...sseldorf, a West German court ruled that the last will & testament of Adolf Hitler, drawn and signed on his last day in his Berlin bomb shelter (April 29, 1945), is valid. The will left his estate to the Nazi Party or the state government succeeding him. Among the losers under the ruling: a Swiss publisher and Frau Paula Hitler-Wolf, a stepsister, who sold the Swiss exclusive publishing rights to the record of Hitler's dinner-table conversations. The result: no copyright protection. A German publisher, out with a pirated edition, can keep right on selling...
While he was still a boy, Kinsey wrote his first published paper, based on his observation of what various birds did in the rain. Some birds, he noted, sang, some shut up, some flew for shelter, some danced in the sky. This early ornithology foreshadowed the two main drives of his life-love of nature and passion for explicit details...