Word: caves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that matter, some U.S. officials were now admitting that some missiles were indeed being hidden in Cuba's caves-but these, they said, were "defensive" rockets with ranges of only 25 miles. Yet the Miami News, which has a remarkably high record for accuracy in reporting developments within Cuba, said flatly that the White House had "hard" intelligence of cave-stored missiles that could carry nuclear destruction to U.S. cities...
...organization. Going against him, he had the most ponderous manners and the heaviest jowls in U.S. politics. On his record, he was not too far to the right of middle-of-the-road Republicanism. But his image was that of a conservative who had just crept out of a cave. For weeks, he had demanded that the Kennedy Administration take strong action against Cuba; when action was taken. Homer thought he had it made. But with ranks closing behind the President, no one heard Capehart's I-told...
...years ago, a flint-chipper named Og, whose wife had unsympathetically thrown his collection of tiger teeth out of the cave, began giving one tiger tooth to anybody who bought two of his flints for ten clams. Soon Og found that he was selling flints by the bushel and running so low on tiger teeth that he had to get more-even if it meant hunting tigers. This was a nuisance and expensive; to cover the cost, he raised the price of his flints to 15 clams a pair. And to his astonishment, nobody seemed to care; they went right...
...occurred and never will. The latest to climb on the badwagon are the writing teams of Burdick-Wheeler and Knebel-Bailey. Their target is the Pentagon. According to their spicy exposés, it is a den of some of the most hideous monsters this side of Cyclops' cave...
...hero: "Hello, Myra? I saw your picture in the Register this afternoon and I just couldn't wait to call you up. Do you remember about two years ago, when you went cave-crawling in Saskatchewan, one of the girls with you, Lisa Urdlu? Well, Lisa lives around the corner from me and told me to be sure and look you up this fall and say Hi and I'm usually terrible about making these contacts but I'd just thought I'd call...