Word: cavernness
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...lead, the men explored the "room" in which they were trapped: a 144-ft.-long by 15-ft.-high chamber that was cold and damp, its floor under water. There was no food; yet, thanks largely to Martinet, the miners resisted panic, began tapping with their picks on the cavern wall...
...caught at a time when they are most inclined to be articulate about themselves. Preachers, philosophers and local grotesques abound. But although Fiddlersburg has been condemned to death, the sentence does not (Samuel Johnson to the contrary) result in wonderfully concentrating its collective mind. On the contrary, an aeolian cavern of Southern garrulity is opened up and the air is thick with all the Confederate clichés about honor, guilt, familial dooms and expiations, the Civil War and slavery. There is much speculation on the quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth...
...epic clash will take place at 3 p.m. at the International House of Pancakes in Brighton, as Harvard-Radcliffe battles Boston University; the scores will be pitted against those complied by 41 other cavern-mouthed teams throughout the country...
...because of the atmosphere, which is early roadhouse, or the cuisine, which could have been learned in a vending machine, but because Dominick is an irascible bounder who only lets in people he likes. Everybody wants to be liked by Dominick, but he stands in his doorway before a cavern of empty tables and announces that he is booked solid. He lets Jack Lemmon in, and Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jim Aubrey, president...
...addicts-and there are 18,000 of them in the U.S.-have their own fashions in everything from haircuts (long, but not too long) to swimsuits (cotton, a size too small). They speak a lingo of words like "hook" (the lip of a breaking wave) and "tube" (the cavern under the hook) and "wipe out" (a spill into the boiling froth). They listen to apostles, who preach: "When the surf is good, you've got to go and get it. Work is secondary. Once you're about 30, then it's time to take a solid...