Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty miles away,, at Washington, fire trucks stood by for an Eastern Air Lines' DC-4 which had radioed that it had been in a collision. It landed with a gaping hole beneath its tail assembly. No one aboard was hurt...
...Attlee stuck to Labor's line that it was the old imperialism that had declined, fallen and been buried beneath the weight of colonial peoples' drive for freedom. Said Attlee: "We do not desire to retain within the Commonwealth and Empire any unwilling peoples...
...Locked beneath the history-laden sands of Saudi Arabia lies the world's last known great oil pool. The right to exploit it belongs to Arabian-American Oil Co., owned by The Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California. But Arabian-American, which has done comparatively little drilling, saw its future production limited by a lack of distribution facilities. On the other hand, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. have plenty of outlets in Europe, but little oil to supply them...
...close game for the first eight-and-a-half minutes, when the Varsity trailed 11 to 9, but the Holy Cross club came on with a spirited offensive spurt of five quick baskets for a commanding lead. Besides Kaftan, whose work beneath both baskets was the finest play of the evening, the victors had in guard Ken Haggerty a set-shot specialist who caged five two-pointers in the second half from outside the foul circle...
Tired Like a Dog. "Harvey is a nice guy too. He gave me his second last cigaret. ... He was walking between two of my men, tied to the rope. Suddenly beneath his feet the snow and ice had vanished, a deep crevasse was open. We got him up, just like that, in a moment. I was surprised to see that he still had my ice ax firmly in his hand. ... It is rare that a greenhorn has such presence of mind. I'm tired like...