Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, I was afraid...
...below the coasting buzzard, in the grey-green jungles of northern Nicaragua, more was stirring than his great bird's-eye view could catch. Snaking through the scrub, guerrilla riflemen made short, sharp little raids against government outposts. In & out of the piny mountain country on Nicaragua's northern flank, armed, machete-toting men filtered mysteriously. In Guatemala and Costa Rica dusty little companies, in faded denim and khaki, marked time in the tropic heat...
...ocean diving. After two weeks of mechanical trouble off the Cape Verde Islands, he sent the 40-ton bathyscaphe down, unmanned, on a test dip of 4,250 feet (deeper than the man-aboard record of 3,028 feet set in 1934 by William Beebe, but far short of the 2½ miles Professor Piccard was hoping for). When the bathyscaphe surfaced, it was caught in a heavy ground swell and banged against the ship, and some of its equipment was wrecked. The left-handed professor* called off the expedition and sadly headed for home, but he thought he might...
Brooding over this bloody scene stood the unearthly stone faces. According to native legends, they were made by a tribe called "the Long-Ears," who were eventually massacred by "the Short-Ears." According to Dr. Wolff's psychological analysis, the statues were set up to protect the souls of the dead, or to protect the volcanoes (symbolizing rebirth) from the spirit of death. The statues were carved in the crater of a volcano. Several, as if just completed, lie there still. Others lie unfinished, as if their long-eared carvers had dropped their crude tools just before being killed...
...Mitzi says, she is afraid of getting to be 40. "I think maybe I'll look back and realize my work was tenth-rate. But meanwhile, I've got to keep hammering. It comes straight out of my nervous system. I'll probably die of a short circuit...