Word: shelterer
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Rodent, confused and dazed, took shelter beneath the squad car. The car promptly drove away. Left in the open, the escapee made for a corner behind the bank, to an obbligato of, "God look...
...Briggs Hall group has expressed great concern over the emotional problems of the girl who, under the new system, would no longer be able to avoid unpleasant situations by obeying the rules. Its members refused to realize that Radcliffe has never attempted to shelter them from the painful process of making decisions, whether social or academic. The belief that any system of rules is an adequate substitute for individual responsibility is simply self-deception...
...from the outside world with no way of knowing what is happening, crowd him in cramped quarters with a large group, ration his food and leave him completely to his own devices. What happens? Since many civilians and military men would face such conditions in group shelters in an atomic war, the U.S. Navy decided to try them out on 96 young (average age: 18) recruits, herded them into a 25-ft. by 48-ft. unheated shelter sunk 5 ft. beneath the grounds of the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. Engineers figured that the men might shiver with...
Like an Old Movie. Scientists of the Naval Research Laboratory found the experiment no bore, gathered enough information to keep them busy evaluating for several months. Closed-circuit TV zeroed in on the recruits has already given, them many of the answers they want. At first the shelter seemed a weary sailor's paradise, and the men caught up on all the sack time lost at boot camp, sleeping in shifts. When fatigue gave way to restlessness, they turned to poker (played for matchsticks, since the Navy officially bans gambling). But this palled after a week, conversation was exhausted...
After Confinement, Liberty. The Navy intends to try tougher tests (one this summer to see how much heat men cooped up in a shelter can take) to study the physical factors of shelter life, but its volunteer guinea pigs are unlikely ever to experience the psychological stresses of real shelter life. The first test recruits were not told how long they would be confined, but they knew that they would eventually get out in good health. Aware that they were under observation, they carefully tended to squelch unsociable feelings; the Navy even let them have all the cigarettes they wanted...