Word: caving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under the eyes of everyone there." Old Jim Horner has a topper to that finish; he claims that before they had traveled back to Wales, Arthur had converted his Guardsman escort to pacifism...
...this lively joy, the Government hopes, will keep the tourists' attention from the tuberculous children of the Vallecas slums, or the cave dwellers in the sandy hills outside Madrid, or the beggars who inconsiderately paw at the sleeves of guests exhausted after a night's dancing at the lovely Ritz gardens. Madrid's unskilled workers live on cheap fish, beans, occasional rice, watered wine. The housing situation is desperate. After years of waiting, some young couples are still looking for a chance to sublet a single room in the city's cheapest slum before they...
Craft in a Cave. Shipped north, Greening bolted from the train during an air attack. Winter caught him on the Yugoslav border and he holed up in a cave with two New Zealanders. To pass the long days they whittled statuettes and model airplanes, invited kids from the nearby villages to come look. One night a German patrol looked in too and recaptured them...
...speleological depth record passed last week from Italy to France. Speleologist (cave explorer) Pierre Chevalier, a chemical engineer above ground, led an expedition into a hole in the limestone body of the Dent de Crolles, a 6,765-ft. mountain in the western Alps. Eleven hours later the party emerged from the other side of the mountain and announced that they had worked their way 658 meters (2,158 ft.) below their starting point. The previous record, near Verona, Italy: 637 meters...
...took M. Chevalier and his fellow cave crawlers twelve years to explore the Dent de Crolles, which is riddled with caves like a geological Swiss cheese. Back in the Tertiary period (10 million years ago), says M. Chevalier, the mountain was much taller. Snow water from the youthful peak worked its way into the rock, gnawing wells and tunnels and vast, echoing halls in the soluble limestone. Then, as the peak itself eroded away, the channels gradually lost their water supply and became a "fossil drainage system." Another elaborate system, still rushing with water, now drains through the diminished peak...