Word: caving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is little rainfall. The Communists are slowly changing the face of this churlish land. Where the soil is cultivable, they have planted crops. Villages have plenty of pigs and chickens. Generally the inhabitants look sturdy, well-fed, well-clothed. The typical village home is an arched loess cave, whitewashed and faced with wood...
Yenan, the capital (pop. 25,000), is a city of caves cut in tiers in the loess slopes. One of its cave hospitals has eight stories. Its university (enrollment: 2,000) is a labyrinth of classrooms and dormitories...
Pete Helen, and Evan Carison, the Alaskan kids, have found something to their liking in "the Cave." Peter calls it the homey atmosphere but Evan likes the whiskey and waters Spanish John serves for his friends there...
...Meaner the Better. Guam's fighting kennel has about 60 dogs, mostly Dobermans, some German shepherds, a few other breeds. Their skill at ferreting out snipers terrified the Japs there from the beginning. One dog chased four Japs into a cave, where they committed suicide with grenades rather than fight it out. All the animals are trained to attack and kill on signal. Said a sergeant handler: "They are mean dogs and we make them meaner...
...some kind of lightheaded disrespect of the high seriousness of Japanese suicide. One day the marines observed a circle of about 50 Japanese, including several small children, gaily tossing hand grenades to each other-like baseball players warming up before a game. Suddenly six Japanese soldiers dashed from a cave, from which they had been sniping at marines. The soldiers posed arrogantly in front of the civilians, then blew themselves to kingdom come; thus shamed, the civilians did likewise...