Word: caveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucible of crumbling society. The girl follows on the wings of love: "Now my unquiet heart is at ease," she sings. "Nothing remains but ourselves and the trees." They seal their defection with a kiss-as native bearers carry the appliances of the fat life into their cave...
...supervising activity in the children's living room on the lower level. A little balcony juts out at the end of a short passageway alongside the fireplace, saving steps and making family togetherness a practical matter. Says the architect: "You can go from nest to fishbowl to cave in a few steps. The house has endless variety...
...Okinawa beach, D-day-plus-ten, the enemy launched a surprise attack, and I made a quick run with others to a nearby cave on the shore. In my haste I cut my hand on a sharp piece of coral rock. It was a Negro soldier who took a bandage from his own first-aid kit to bind my hand and stem the blood...
...files are systematically churned into pulp. The company has also arranged separate corporate storage centers for such paper-heavy giants as Bethlehem Steel, General Electric and Grumman Aircraft, and has moved into a new field by microfilming irreplaceable company documents and storing the film in an isolated New England cave that would hopefully survive a nuclear...
Oiling the Hinges. Ever since the first cave man sealed a tribal alliance over a haunch of charred flesh and a gourdful of fermented juice, such working sessions have been as much a part of diplomacy as the formal conference. Thanks largely to his wit and disarming manner at parties, Benjamin Franklin coaxed 55 million livres out of a nearly bankrupt French government during American Revolution. Bound for the Congress of Vienna, Talleyrand told King Louis XVIII, "Sire, I have more need of casseroles than of written instructions," and his success in softening the terms imposed on his defeated nation...