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...years ago, a flint-chipper named Og, whose wife had unsympathetically thrown his collection of tiger teeth out of the cave, began giving one tiger tooth to anybody who bought two of his flints for ten clams. Soon Og found that he was selling flints by the bushel and running so low on tiger teeth that he had to get more-even if it meant hunting tigers. This was a nuisance and expensive; to cover the cost, he raised the price of his flints to 15 clams a pair. And to his astonishment, nobody seemed to care; they went right...
...hero: "Hello, Myra? I saw your picture in the Register this afternoon and I just couldn't wait to call you up. Do you remember about two years ago, when you went cave-crawling in Saskatchewan, one of the girls with you, Lisa Urdlu? Well, Lisa lives around the corner from me and told me to be sure and look you up this fall and say Hi and I'm usually terrible about making these contacts but I'd just thought I'd call...
Will to Resist. The Minneapolis experience suggests that this may be so. When the unions throttled the city's two newspaper voices, they clearly miscalculated management's means−and wil−to resist. The papers simply refused to cave in. In dealing with the holdout Teamsters, the Star and Tribune proved just as stubborn as Hoffa...
...Neanderthals discover their enemies. They are a tall, erect race of Homo sapiens, equipped with log boats, bows and arrows. In the blind struggle of mutual fear waged in the dark forests, the new men kill the last Neanderthal woman. The last dawn man crawls back to his cave and docilely assumes the burial posture, knees drawn to chest. At the edge of the cave can be seen the shapes of hyenas...
...Smith spent nearly 36 years in what he called ''The Cave of the Winds," dazzling his colleagues with his overblown oratory and the voters back home with a simple platform that promised to keep i) Negroes down and 2 ) the price of cotton up. He punctuated his Senate speeches with "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away (or. if it was not there, at the Senate carpet), often rose to his feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding...