Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken high-tension wires...
...Dorm at Stowe, Vermont, long a popular student outing spot, survived a change of hands this year and will house its usual 50 occupants under the direction of the Vermont Forest Service. This shelter, run by AYH for several years because of the inquietude of local hotel managements, offers skiing on Mt. Mansfield during a full four-month season...
...World Fellowship Hostel at Conway, New Hampshire now fills the Stowe shelter's berth as the most popular AYH location. Situated 13 miles from the Mt. Cranmore development, it boasts four months of good slope-sliding and room enough for 50 skiiers. The hostel grounds contain countless slopes for the novice while Cranmore easily accommodates the both intermediate skiiers and experts alike...
January and March offer fair skiing at the Northfield, Massachusetts Ski Hostel. The shelter is situated on Mr. Grace, and, in addition to having its own slopes, is within easy reach of the towfed hills at Bernardston and Greenfield, Massachusetts and Brattlebore, Vormont...
...simple realism are far better dramatic ingredients than the usual artificiality and mock heroics that accompany war movies. Even the story is simple: it concerns a little mountain town almost untouched by the war which rages around it. Untouched, at least, until two escaped American prisoners looking for shelter, which is given them by a local farmer. Their hiding and subsequent discovery provide ample opportunity for both comedy and tragedy, as well as for straight drama...