Word: culdesac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirteen hours later, borne on stretchers, swathed in blankets, their eyes shielded to prevent permanent damage from glaring camera lights, the twelve began to emerge from their 4-ft.-high culdesac. Doctors found the men an average 10 Ibs. lighter but in surprisingly good shape. They had found enough food in their own lunch pails and in those of dead companions in the chamber for four days, enough water, when rationed from a tiny aspirin bottle, to last almost as long. Said one survivor proudly: "No man took more than his share." Toward the last they gathered their own urine...