Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century. Overwhelmed suddenly by the fury of snow, the bitterness of the wind and the blindness of a near zero-visibility whiteout, the climbers came to a desperate, shivering halt. In a frantic effort to save themselves, they crammed their bodies, sardine close, into a small snow cave...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
...thunder of antiaircraft fire. They felt their hotel shiver in response to the bombs' pounding. But many of the U.S. reporters clustered in Al Kabir Hotel in downtown Tripoli were not quite sure what was actually going on. Like the people in Plato's parable of the cave who can discern reality only from the shadows that a fire throws on the wall, the correspondents could only make informed guesses as to what was happening...
...between Idaho and Montana--while chasing elk has committed a felony. The NRA has made much of such idiocies in our gun laws in its efforts to roll them back. Cleaning up details like this, and allowing hunting weapons a little freer rein is arguably not such a "cave in" to the minority...
Chortle, chortle, gulp, hem. It gets less funny the more it sinks in. The what-ifs start to add up. Back when people lived in caves baby identification was easy--there was only one baby per cave at a time and no plexiglass to shield worried parents from maternity wards piled high with anonymous bawling infants...