Word: caving
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...Crystal Cave, Stewart...
Best of all, there are umbrellas, which the girl collects and cares for by keeping them furled in the rain and open in sunshine. Why is " 'brella" one of the 200 words that come in an unmodulated rush from the cave of her near total silence? West speculates with uncommon insight: "When the 'brella's up you're overjoyed by its capacity for coming down, and when it's rolled and fastened you're overjoyed by what it's just been, what it can again be after a couple of simple shoves...
...Crystal Cave, Stewart...
According to the legends, he once held back a flood by placing an icon on the beach and declaring that the waters would not go past it. Another time he thwarted a forest fire by similar means. He lived in a cave, wore a deerskin cassock and slept on a wooden bench with bricks for his pillow. As a missionary, he defended the Aleuts against the traders who exploited them. He ran a school and orphanage for the natives, among whom-even in his own lifetime-he was popularly regarded as a saint. Last week the Orthodox Church in America...
...Crystal Cave, Stewart...