Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potsdam, Yalta, Teheran and Cairo Conferences; of a heart attack; in Greenock, Scotland. Following four years as ambassador to Nationalist China's wartime capital, Chungking, he was sent to Moscow in 1942 for the war years, once spent two congenial hours with Stalin in a Kremlin bomb shelter during a Nazi air raid. His last assignment before retiring to his farm in Scotland: Ambassador...
...colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled vials of alcohol...
...knew him as a professional type-always quiet, never talkative about his past. There wasn't much Private Thompson wanted to tell. Born out of wedlock, he had been brought up by his grandmother in New York City tenements, had finally run away and been taken into a shelter for waifs. In 1945, at the age of 18, Willie enlisted in the Army, determined to make something of himself...
...another two died. The two remaining buried their comrades in piles of flour, lived on the vast stores of food in the bunker, washed in schnapps to conserve the small supply of water which seeped through cracks in the concrete walls. When Polish workers cleared the rubble from the shelter's entrance, they crawled...
Atkinson thinks the long-range idea is sound. The addition to the subway route will open a large new area for efficient subway transportation. The new subway tunnel may be built with reinforced walls so that it could serve as a bomb shelter, like one being planned in New York City. But, even more important to Harvard, the transfer of the yards will remove an old eyesore near the College and make available for constructive use valuable land equal in size to Eliot, Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell Houses combined...