Word: cave
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...jumped in. We set out to develop a bigger, better magazine, with more and longer stories and a splashier design. We did paste-up back then by hand, with X-acto knives, waxed type and blue-gridded layout boards. We worked in what can only be described as a cave off the newspaper’s paste-up room. I remember cold, cracked, concrete walls, leaky pipes, and a damp vegetable odor that mingled with the pervasive smells of ink, hot wax and photo chemicals. An atmosphere, I imagine, not too different from those...
...those of you who have been living in a cave these past few weeks—that means you, Osama—the invention, also called “IT,” had been kept secret for months up until yesterday’s televised unveiling. “IT” turned out to be a scooter. Whoo...
...open trials show their toughness on terrorism by pointing out that we have already curtailed the normal rules of legal procedure. "The law already limits the reach of the Bill of Rights overseas," the New York Times reassures us. "American troops need not show a warrant before entering a cave in Afghanistan for their findings to be admissible at trial in the United States." Such are the Upper West Side's concessions...
...level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told TIME. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden] is." American warplanes were dispatched to help finish the job. EGBU-28 bunker busters burrowed through yards of limestone, and AGM-65 Maverick missiles homed in on cave openings, destroying the labyrinths and their inhabitants...
...northern Afghanistan, U.S. special ops in the south provided Pashtun tribes with advice, ammunition and weapons. But the immediate goal was to divine bin Laden's location with enough precision for the U.S. to deploy its forces?either technological or human, in the air or down into a cave?to deliver the final blow. All week American troops manned checkpoints on the roads running through former Taliban country, seeking clues to bin Laden's coordinates. Special-ops commandos plied Taliban lieutenants on the leadership penumbra with cash in exchange for secrets about al-Qaeda leaders' movements. While the informants could...