Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their last day at Brent, three alumni teetering on the edge of 60 set off to find Senior Cave. This had been a modest hillside hole, concealed from the faculty by distance and foliage, where as boys they once spent many afternoons smoking cigarettes and drinking, for want of wisdom, cherry brandy. The day was warm, the hill steep, the pine-needle footing slippery, and the men were all overweight...
They could not find their cave, which, like their youth, had vanished under more than 40 years of erosion. But as the three Americans, puffing and sweating, clambered back up the steep Philippine hillside, they knew they had shared the pleasure of searching...
...friend rather than to a bank, the friend absconds with the sum. In desperation. Walter Lee is ready to give up the house in the suburbs, for which the down payment has been made, by selling it back to the local homes association. However, unable to cave in to the representative of the association with his son and mother present. Walter Lee rejects the association's offer. All throughout the performance, Johnson's depiction of his emotional growth is convincing...
...creativity and the gradual growth of a government unaccountable to its people. As the traditional bastions of free and uninhibited debate in society, universities can not even give the appearance of accepting restrictions on their research. Instead they must fight the trend--loudly and openly. If universities begin to cave in on the principle, other institutions in society surely cannot be far behind...
...test: early elections and a campaign that will undoubtedly be as fierce as any in Israel's history. The Prime Minister had just ended a hectic meeting on fixing the election date (July 23) when he received Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan in his comfortable but modest Jerusalem office. Though he looked weary, Shamir, 68, seemed relaxed and in good humor as he responded in English to his visitors' questions. Excerpts from the interview...