Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of a boot with a rubber bottom attached to a leather top. From that inspiration came the famous "Maine Hunting Shoe"-which a hunter, Bean later boasted, "might like better than his wife." Once in business, Bean gradually expanded into other lines, and his factory grew into a labyrinth of makeshift additions and rickety dumbwaiters...
...detailed plans for the Viet Cong suicide attack on Tan Son Nhut Airport last Dec. 4, typewriters, medical supplies, officers' sidearms and even a small cemetery. There were a few Viet Cong defenders left behind, and the G.I.s, equipped with silencer-mounted .38 pistols, pursued them through the labyrinth. After exploring the maze for 1,000 yds., the tunnel rats came up and turned the task over to units that pumped nausea gas through the system, then set about blasting it to dust...
Mitford's monarch was a bit of a monster, and although the term would have been unthinkable to a regime based on blood, he was a self-made monster; he lived like the Minotaur, that legendary prince of Knossos, in the center of his own labyrinth...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world...
Behind that myth is a backstage world that matches the dream in technological terms. It is a world within worlds, a vast labyrinth of shops-carpentry, electrical, wig, prop, tailor, paint-two ballet studios, 20 rehearsal rooms (three of them as large as the main stage), 14 dressing rooms for principal singers, and hangar-sized chambers capable of storing the sets for all 23 of the Met's productions this season. For the singers, accustomed to the Stygian confines of the old Met, it was like being turned loose in Wyoming; so many of them got lost...