Word: caves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King of the Gulch. Near Idaho Springs, Colo., shaggy, red-bearded Alex Anderson lived a hermit's life in a mountain cave...
...Cave Junction...
...climb a ten-foot wall. On top of it the Generalissimo slipped and fell into the moat outside, a drop of 30 feet. For three minutes he could not move. Then a number of bodyguards helped him up the mountain. The Generalissimo fell into a cave that was hidden by thorny shrubs, and lay there, exhausted. Later soldiers found him. "Let us fire a shot," said one. "Don't do that," said another...
...Last Man. Last week, in a cave in the Bosnian hills, Anna Furlan, a black-haired girl, tended a score of wounded Partisans. Axis troops were advancing under the cover of Stukas. The Partisans fell back doggedly, drawing the fascist forces between two mountains where they might be cut off and annihilated. The tactic was simple, but the cave, the wounded Partisans and Anna would fall into fascist hands. When the Germans came close to the mouth of the cave, Anna got a tommy gun, killed all the wounded men, then herself...
Charles Mohr is not the only bat-bander. Don Griffin of Harvard has banded thousands of bats in New England, had also noted the homing urge. Bats from a cave near the coast were released 15 miles at sea. Two days later they were back in their own cave...