Word: caveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their floors are deep in stinking guano and littered with the skulls and bones of long-dead bats. Over this repulsive carpet crawl fierce, flesh-eating dermestid beetles and their larvae-so numerous that the floor seems alive. When a sick or senile bat falls from...
...those cracks? We had to remove 30,000 books from the library upstairs because we were told the second floor would cave...
Waystop for the Kennedys abroad is the villa Vista Bella, rented every summer since 1957 by Joe Kennedy (for $2,000 a month) at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera. The interior of the villa is as dark as a cave, and is an idle mixture of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Chinese and Magyar decorative styles. Plumbing is in the classic French tradition: huge tiled arenas with a tangled network of pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts...
Died. Abbé Henri Breuil, 84, paleontologist-priest who in the face of disbelieving colleagues proclaimed the paleolithic origin of the famed cave paintings at Altamira, Spain, and the Dordogne region of France-a contention that was later borne out by radioactive-carbon dating; near Paris...
...accepted your appointment in January 1959, we agreed to the seriousness of the traffic problem, and the need for vigorous leadership. Since that time your support has dwindled steadily and by now has disappeared . . . My attempts to curb the drunk driver, while initially receiving lip service, saw you 'cave in' to pressure for a softer law. These experiences are symptomatic of a sick administration...