Word: cavernness
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Spelunker Loubens was suffering from "cavern disease," acute depression caused by remaining too long underground. On his way up, the steel cable, sawing on jagged rocks, snapped. Loubens fell through darkness to a pile of boulders 120 feet below. He had a broken back and broken jaw. Not until next morning did Dr. André Mairey reach the unconscious Loubens. Even as he lashed the injured man to a stretcher, Loubens died. The stretcher jammed in the rocks. While Loubens' widow and father waited at the surface, the spelunkers thoughtfully removed Loubens' wedding ring and then buried...
...Dare you wed a wild man of the woods." he crooned, "and come and live with him in his cavern . . .?" Jane had often answered "Never, never!" to such proposals. But at last she weakened and agreed, suggesting they live with her mother. To this, he growled: "The man should bear rule in the house and not the woman. This is an eternal axiom . . . It is the nature of a woman . . . to cling to the man for support and direction...
From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...
Last week an anonymous tip sent the police into Genoa's big Ansaldo shipyards, which they had searched unsuccessfully before. This time they came upon the biggest prize yet. Under a staircase behind a false wall was an underground cavern, and in it were 15 tons of war materiel (including one mountain cannon, 22 heavy machine guns, cases of antitank grenades and time bombs). The passage led to the sea. Police figured the party planned to distribute the arms by boat. On the cavern's wall was the slogan: "These are the weapons of peace...
...Over there" was the grey, stone-walled New York Stock Exchange. Inside, on the crowded trading floor, there was no gloom, only pent-up excitement. The huge cavern buzzed with talk of General Motors' new five-year contract with the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The pact had been announced the day before, after the market closed, and traders now wondered how this testimonial to continued prosperity would affect the market...