Word: cavernness
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...about the size of an unexploded cluster bomb but the wrong color - red instead of yellow. Another cave next to it was about the same size and filled with ammunition, mostly bullets for Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. Another nearby was much bigger and also filled with ammunition. Its cavern sloped up and back and seemed to lead to a passage, but nobody ventured...
...entered my first cave by walking through a narrow 20-foot passage chiseled into a 60-degree mountain slope. The effect was of walking through a deep cavern open to the sky. I walked down the passage, stepping over two rows of sandbags that blocked my way, and came to a three-foot opening. I ducked into the mouth and dared go no further. Not even the mujahidin would follow, and several were making "boom" noises and gesturing about flying body parts. Everybody expected booby traps or mines...
...were as much a fiercely insular family as they were a ferocious rock band--and a few weeks later the boys were playing together again in England. Sounding better than ever, and much better than other Liverpool pop bands, the Beatles became local legends through their shows at the Cavern Club. They got a record contract, replaced their drummer with the talented Starr and were on their...
...were as much a fiercely insular family as they were a ferocious rock band - and a few weeks later the boys were playing together again in England. Sounding better than ever, and much better than other Liverpool pop bands, the Beatles became local legends through their shows at the Cavern Club. They got a record contract, replaced their drummer with the talented Starr and were on their...
...mounted with large-caliber machine guns for the ride to Bamiyan. All that remained of the 50-m and 36-m Buddhas, which for a millennium-and-a-half gazed out at armies, merchants and pilgrims, were faint outlines. Our escorts, delighted with their work, shot into the empty cavern where the smaller, supposedly female statue once stood. Then they presented us with the ultimate souvenir of Afghanistan's newest attraction: pieces of broken rock from the Buddhas, along with some shells of the ammunition used to destroy them...