Word: caves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method of extracting the Japs was a series of inshore patrols by a landing craft. As marines inland prodded every tussock, probed every cave, the LCI cruised close to the cliffs, while a language officer at a loudspeaker urged the Japs to come on down and give up. Among his persuasions: good food, clean beds, plenty of bathing, the chance of honorable surrender. Some of the Japs were persuaded. Many others, still convinced that there was no such thing as honorable surrender, were...
...Marines finally had every cave on the ridge covered. They waited. When the Gopher popped out this time, a Marine marksman got him-through the head...
...from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...
...counted no shells in 35 minutes. ... It seemed every time we'd try to get some food the shelling would start again. You'd duck in a trench to get a cup of tea, then spill it diving back into your own trench. . . . Our trenches would cave in too unless we could reinforce them with boards...
...petrifying few minutes in which a Burmese priestess of fertility entices a reeling, slavering, divine king cobra from his cave, reverently kisses him three times on the brow...