Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers of Paris printed up special menus "pour le grand froid." Their recommendation: plenty of red meat and fresh vegetables. Movie houses and theaters canceled their shows. The hydraulic elevators at the Eiffel Tower refused to work, and even the doughty and haughty clochards (the hobos of Paris) sought shelter in the stations of their ancient enemies, the police...
Still, Captain Dean and a handful of his men refuse to quit. They pull some of the flotsam from the sea and make a pathetic shelter. They find that ice ripped from boulders will do for water, that seaweed and mussels will keep a spark of life in bodies so frozen that toes fall off without giving pain. And when Chips, the ship's carpenter, dies, they find that his flesh can be eaten with an easy conscience, once they have decided to call it beef...
...with indescribable emotion that I return to my liberated country," said Gainza Paz in a choked voice. As his well-wishers nearly knocked him down, a squad of police linked arms with some of the welcomers in a weaving, living wall to move him and his party to shelter. "My God!" exclaimed Gainza Paz happily at the height of the crush (which somehow cost him a lost wallet). "This is worse than when Perón was in charge...
Before long, Roger Williams was convicted of having "erroneous and dangerous" opinions before he escaped and founded the town of Providence ("for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience...
Lack of space is the main obstacle. The only room presently in use which is large enough to shelter a herd of typists is Memorial Hall; yet exam schedulers hesitate to sacrifice if for typing. It does seem feasible, however, for tables to be set up in Hemenway Gymnasium or in the IAB when varsity teams are not practicing. Even more convenient would be a dining hall. Funncling students to other Houses for breakfast and lunch as different houses were used on successive days would not be very difficult...