Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
Those who reverently place wreaths beneath Garibaldi's memorial and those who kneel before the Virgin-many citizens do both-have long lived together in drowsy tolerance. But now, the heirs of Garibaldi are tainted with Marxism...
Said , bulletheaded, 76-year-old President Juho Paasikivi, who still swims in the ice-cold bay beneath his villa and who admires solid sculpture: "We now have unrationed meat, and it has worked very well. The farmers get higher prices. Our crop in 1946 was 63% of prewar, but it should be up to 70% for 1947-and remember we lost 12% of our arable land under the treaty. We are expanding industrial production. Our Communists are sometimes noisy but so far they have not succeeded in forcing nationalization beyond the point of maximum effectiveness...
...patient diggers of the American School of Classical Studies last week finished their twelfth season of rooting into ancient Athens. They had concentrated on the Agora, or central public square, one of the oldest continually inhabitated spots on earth. Beneath the Agora, history and prehistory lie in deep-stacked layers. All the great trends in civilization have touched this enchanted area, as they are touching...
...Beneath the remains of classical Athens, the diggers found two Mycenaean tombs hacked in the living rock. The tombs contained three skeletons, two long bronze swords, other weapons and delicately wrought ornaments of the Age of Bronze. Judging by these remains, the diggers believe that the tombs date from 1400 B.C. At that period, ancient Greece was not yet Greece, for the real Greeks had not swept down in numbers from Thessaly in the north. Athens was probably a small city subject to great Mycenae, itself an outpost of the strange, semi-Egyptian civilization which centered on the island...