Word: shelterer
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...summer, crossing the pass was exhausting and dangerous. In winter, only the very skilled or very lucky escaped death in the snow-choked heights, where temperatures dropped to 22° below zero. St. Bernard of Menthon, in the 11th century, founded his famed hospice to offer aid and shelter to weary travelers; only rarely, nowadays, do the monks and their St. Bernard dogs go out in search of lost souls, although some poor Italian emigrants and occasional smugglers may risk their lives after September, when the pass is closed to motor traffic. But one day last week, motorists drove right...
...Stern describes are well known to those familiar with the Code. The favorites of any good tax lawyer--percentage depletion for oil wells and clam shells*, the marital deduction, capital gains treatment for raisers of cattle and Christmas trees, stock options, and those marvelous fabrications, the real estate tax shelter and the collapsible corporation--all these are here, all are wittily and accurately dissected, all are outrageous. There is little more to be said about The Great Treasury Raid; those who are interested should read the book, those who are not will not be brought to do so by anything...
...missing students had weathered the storm in the Edmands Col shelter on Mount Jefferson. When the bad weather broke early yesterday morning they were spotted simultaneously from the Glen House, the center of the searching operation, and from a light plane...
...Harvard group started its trek to the shelter. Meanwhile the plane dropped a note to the missing students instructing them to leave the shelter. The two groups met on the side of Mount Jefferson...
...string, barrels, one chair and a ladder. The play itself describes the collapse of blind Hamm's strange world. The cause of the disaster, we gradually understand, is Hamm's conceit. He is, as his name suggests, the abstraction of Actor whose solipsism has reduced his world to a shelter-like setting of old age (his barreled parents, Nagg and Nell) and crippled youth (Clov, who limps...