Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale professors may be peculiarly ineffective. Buckley's thesis has too much superficial logic to stagger perceptibly under a broadside of charges of "fascism" or "medieval scholasticism." It is the framework, the lattice of values beneath Buckley's facile reasoning, that is weak, rotten, and remarkably prone to cave...
...Both came from prominent political families in Crete, but Constantine's family was Royalist, Tassoula's Liberal. Tassoula's father forbade the marriage, so Constantine grabbed Tassoula, carried her off to Mount Ida, where they were married in a lonely monastery, then hid in a cave protected by a private army of Constantine's family and friends...
...Pharaoh protect and love and guide a living child? 'My daddy's three thousand years old. Yeth, we go to thee him in the museum thometimes. We thee hith toe poking out of the bandage, just like my big toe' . . . I am already a craven prehistoric cave woman of 1951. Thank God. At least we're all five of us alive, 98.4 degrees...
Last month a twelve-man Belgian-French cave-exploring team went back to Basses-Pyrénées, made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking...
...found the typical boulder-strewn cave that forms when mountains shudder and crack. Water filters down, eroding giant shafts, forming subterranean lakes over layers of impermeable clay. Later earthquakes sometimes crack the lake floor, draining off the water and leaving immense underground chambers...