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air-raid shelter [¦er ‚rād ¦shel·tər] (civil engineering) A chamber, often underground, provided with living facilities and food, for sheltering people against air attacks. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On the roof, Sidnam Petrone were confronted by what looked like an
old air-raid shelter requiring extensive structural repair and stripping
out, as well as new subfloors and services. Thus during 1940, the year Winston Churchill later called the
noblest in all of English history, the year in which he declared that he
had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat,"
Pamela, pregnant with his grandson and sleeping in the bunk right below
his, shared the great man's air-raid shelter. |
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