Word: basement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry...
Governor Edward J. King [April 2] was elected by Massachusetts on a campaign pledge to reduce state property taxes by $500 million. All I can say to Commonwealth voters is, you get what you pay for. You go for a bargain, you get bargain-basement quality. And boy, are we getting...
...basement cells, dark, stinking holes with heavily barred doors, were reserved for political and "special category" prisoners, presumably those from whom information was to be extracted before they were killed. The most chilling area was the top floor, where most of the cells were located along with interrogation rooms. This was where most of the beating and torturing occurred...
...needed a new life, a rebirth. And now with the way the team is playing it will be our fault if we don't go out there and take it." said first basement Mark Bingham...
They came seeking help, rushing past surprised Soviet guards and bursting into the U.S. embassy in Moscow last June 27. The seven Soviet citizens are now holed up as unwelcome guests in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. basement room (plus kitchen and bath). They are permitted no mail through diplomatic channels, cannot meet with reporters in the embassy building, and live in relative isolation. But they are adequately fed, at U.S. expense. Sympathizers have sent them books, and even a game of Russian Scrabble...