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Word: caving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indians armed with poisoned darts and arrows. Arabian assassins in black masks wielding wickedly whistling scimitars. Nazis by the jackbooted legion, including a Gestapo sadist always dressed in black, always giggling in happy anticipation of torturing someone. A cave where tarantulas drop from the ceiling by the bushel. An underground chamber alive with deadly snakes-7,500 of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slam! Bang! A Movie Movie | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...former resident of Canaday Hall--the newest Yard dorm--conversing with two administrators asked whether his freshman home had "come apart at the seams." One administrator answered that yes, indeed, it had--shortly after its construction. The inside pasteboard walls, the administrator explained, had begun to cave in shortly after Canaday opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Decay | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...later by default. So devoted was O'Neill to his own plan that he impulsively predicted a week before the budget vote that the fight was already lost. His colleagues, unaware of what their leader was up to, were more than ever convinced by that cave-in that Tip was out of touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tip O' Neill on the Ropes | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Mathis also quoted the El Salvadorean government's assertions that no cave existed named "La Pintada," nor could any cave in El Salvador hold 1500 persons. If they had read the report's updates more carefully, they would have learned that many of the victims were gunned down before they were able to seek temporary refuge in a series of caves named "La Sentada...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: Reading Between the Lines | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

...spite of the early onslaught, Tufts didn't cave in. With the help of a few errors and poor pitching control. Tufts eked its way back to knot the score at 11-all by the top of the fourth...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Women's Softball Crushes Tufts, 25-12 | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

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