Word: chimneyed
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...case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent marines vowed that he was really 200 years old and had first enlisted at Tun Tavern, where the Corps was born during the Revolutionary...
Vanishing Torrent. Dripping wet from the water trickling down the chimney's walls and shivering with cold, Lépineux was brought to the surface three hours and 40 minutes later. During the descent, the spinning cable had made the walls seem to revolve so fast in the light of his head lamp that he had almost been sick. But once on the bottom, he had felt up to a little exploring...
...watched a black mountain crow fly into a yawning pit and disappear. Since crows love dark recesses almost as much as speleologists do, Amateur Geologist Lépineux rushed to investigate. A small cave led off the pit floor, and a few feet inside the cave mouth a limestone chimney dropped away into darkness. Cautiously, Lépineux heaved a rock into the opening, waited for the faint, faraway sounds of its fall. Then he rushed to report his discovery...
...month a twelve-man Belgian-French cave-exploring team went back to Basses-Pyrénées, made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking...
...Treasure Island and The Last of the Mohicans lit the eyes of generations of children. "My father," Andy says fervently, "was big in his feeling and the way he lived. At Christmas he used to play Santa Claus with electric lights all over him and practically come down the chimney. His studio was like his painting, loaded with stuff-pistols, swords, chests...