Word: caveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peterpat. In primordial days, man went forth from his cave to vie with Tyrannosaurus rex. Nowadays, he leaves his office cubicle to do battle with Tyrannosaurus regina-his wife. That is the sempiternal issue with which Enid Rudd has made her playwriting debut in this wry, observant, warm and almost steadily amusing comedy...
...sector, they dug a 448-ft. tunnel that emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times, seepage from underground mains almost forced them to abandon the project. But they kept digging. They installed a ventilation system, used walkie-talkies to warn of the approach of Red Vopo patrols. At the West Berlin entrance to the tunnel...
...Cave-In. In Saigon, the disorders grew. Catholic students set fire to the building of the predominantly Buddhist National Students' Union, whose members, for their part, sacked the budget department of the Information Ministry -only to apologize, explaining that they had meant to destroy the department of censorship. On the third day, 2,000 students staged a sitdown in front of Khanh's office, while agitators squatting among them denounced him as "too tricky." Finally Khanh decided to resign as President, and the 62-member Military Council announced that it would "select a new national leader." With...
Luck and ingenuity keep him alive. He stumbles on a cave that gives some shelter and contrives to start a fire with yellow rocks that burn like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...
...tiny cave carved in far-off seas Whose dazzle of sun-struck gold-green Here incredibly fixed; and the sound...