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Word: squeezeway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flint Ridge cave crawl. But caving is difficult enough to call for a rare sort of courage and endurance. A common technique, horrifying to imagine, is to exhale in order to reduce the size of the rib cage, then squiggle along, unable to breathe deeply until the squeezeway widens. To do this in an unknown passage, realizing that rescue is impossible and that the passage may narrow, not widen, is not simply grubby-it is gallant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: IROISLECXE | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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