Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of the journey of our college life, I came to myself within the middle of a vast vault cemented on all sides. The easy way was out through the glass doors, but the Vision of my Section Man's distressed Face led me on out of the depths to attempt that serious and arduous journey by which I might reach the Classroom and Truth. With downcast eyes and a penitent heart at trespassing the forbidden confines of Lamont, only the reassuring presence of my Classmate beside me drew...
...cheered and cheered-until Tshombe was out of sight. Then, the gendarmes loaded their automatic rifles, cut the main roads into Kolwezi and held up the local branch of the Banque du Congo. From the vault they took an additional 30 million francs, then went out and got drunk. That night, as they slept it off in their boxcars, steam engines hissed up, locked on, and hauled them off to Kamina. Thus ended the long estrangement...
...POLE VAULT...
...which the bettor wrote his name and address. The machine thereupon swallowed the ticket and issued him an "acknowledgement," which presumably may be transported anywhere, sent through the mail, or even thrown away. The rolls of tickets were collected from the machines, microfilmed and stored in a bank vault...
...Tokyo's supermodern Olympic Village last week, drilling crews were digging furiously in four places at once. Storage holes for pole-vault poles, perhaps? No. They were emergency artesian wells. With the 1964 Olympics only eight weeks away, the world's biggest city (pop. 10.6 million) was running out of water, and fast...