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...when Mao Tse-tung had a price of $100,000 on his head and was hiding in a cave village with his dwindling Red army, a young correspondent named Edgar Snow tramped across north China to the Great Wall, found Mao and spent weeks talking social progress with him. He then hurried home to write Red Star Over China, an ardently naive treatise that predicted the ultimate victory of Mao and his Chinese Communists, who were not really Communists but agrarian reformers...
...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...
...even the smaller cities are immune. Johet, Ill., for example, has a folk cave appropriately called The Know Where Fort Wayne, Ind., has a place called The fourth Shadow where people squat on the Hoor and sip espresso by candlelight over doors that have been made into tables Strings are jumping at The Jolly Coachman in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Incredibly Omaha, just across the river from Council Bluffs, has two places. The Third Man and The Crooked Ear where queues sometimes run to a hundred head, and the varied clientele-as in all cities-not only have beards, berets...
...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...
...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...