Word: transients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brick barracks that served as Lichfield's guardhouse, they spent anywhere from two weeks to six months as penalty for various periods of AWOL. Behind barred windows, overcrowded to such an extent that some of the inmates slept on top of wall lockers, they served their time, and other transient GIs could observe their incarcerated friends double timing to chow, sneaking in a verboten smoke (prisoners were allotted three cigarettes a day at Lichfield-one after every meal) or standing at attention, in front of the mess hall, waiting for the rest of the detachment to dump its mess kits...
...other major aspect of the University's contribution to the war effort was more a superimposing of outside organizations upon an academic community than a utilization of existing facilities, but despite their transient military character, the service schools became an integral part of the University during their five-year stay...
Hotels had allotted 1% of their transient space (625 rooms) to delegates, but problems still arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
...life, even the bad ones, which did not have the qualities quintessential to true poetry. Moreover, his lines are as simple in feeling as they are in language. Their obsessions are with love, sorrow, courage, loneliness, comradeship, death, the delicate and enduring beauty of the world, and the transient and dubious beauty of living in it. Such emotions are of great and unchangeable vividness to human beings who, having peered into the world's Gorgon face, have lost their childhood, but not yet their heart. They, above all people, are Housman's audience...
medical care, transient shelters, bread-and-soup lines, harvest work. Then the wanderers were hustled on. In some places confiscated landed estates were distributed to them. But all efforts seemed puny against the colossal need...