Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left the prisoners, and went inland along a new road which a tank had just smashed out of a rubble-heaped path. I caught up with the tank just in time to see its 105 fire two rounds point-blank into a deep cave. A muffled series of explosions rumbled inside the cave, which had been used to store ammunition...
After the snatch, the general (who quickly became resigned and quite amiable) was rnarched from cave to cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...
These unanimous and near-unanimous votes were significant, but they did not tell the whole story. The Senate was no longer a cave of winds echoing to the oratory of such agile and bitter isolationists as William Borah, Gerald Nye and Burton Wheeler. The dissenters of 1950 were less adept men, like Missouri's fuzz-tongued James P. Kem or Kenneth Wherry, the minority leader from Nebraska, or droning George Malone of Nevada. Conspicuous in their van last week stood the usually forceful and logical Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The President, said Taft, had no legal authority...
Twisting and turning, she took her audience with her on her Errand into the Maze, the soul's fight against fear. After that one, Martha took seven curtain calls. But as she proceeded with her company into other labyrinthine concepts, such as Eye of Anguish and Cave of the Heart, the applause dwindled. At the finale, most of the bravos came from U.S. fans...
What if the tunnels should cave in? "I guess we'll be killed," says Maxwell...