Word: shack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that." The 250,000 unemployed families live like the Weimanns...
...which suffered as much from wartime bombing as Osaka, is as different from Osaka as Boston's Back Bay is from Reno, Nev. Instead of Osaka's new houses, bustling factories, Nagoya boasts huge areas of rubble-littered ground and rotting weeds dotted with an occasional clapboard shack. The ruins of her factories, which Nagoyans had accepted reluctantly as part of the war, stretch...
Last week Handa sat mournfully beside the altar, in his underwear (he was going easy on the few clothes he had left). The rickety shack where the great Nagumo had bowed to the Laughing God was bare and deserted. Few of his former disciples were in a laughing mood...
...pound weight hangs up above the shack, according to Jimmy. "She broke once about 14 years ago--came right on through the roof, but I ducked," Jimmy relates...
...shack in which the clock mechanism is located sits behind the four wed known gold and black faces...