Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elaborate series of automatic backup mechanisms was activated. A 24-volt nickel-cadmium emergency battery took over the plane's dead electrical system, providing enough juice to operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly. The airstream passing through the turbine generated enough pressure to activate the part of the hydraulic system that controls the flight spoilers, rudder and ailerons. This allowed Pearson, who happened to be an experienced glider pilot, to control the craft. The turbine also provided sufficient...
BLUE: A-say! A say, powerdong and efficacious Leader! Oh, as the common lilac brents in hanged aslaver, enfundus of the wapping sun, so do I gronch and toad beneath the glasp of your so blastred wanked eye, a loosome maggot nannyberry, poosant Dux, my muskled Congressman! I base, I base, and cronk the knee in volitude...
...cameras rolled beneath the television lights, and nearly 200 standing onlookers strained to get a view. The object of all the attention was towering (6ft. 7½-in.) Paul Volcker, who was discussing the outlook for money growth and interest rates before a congressional committee that held hearings on his reappointment as Federal Reserve Board chairman. The rumpled, cigar-puffing Volcker has become the staid financial community's first superstar. So great was the interest in his remarks that the 3½-hour session had to be moved from the Senate Banking Committee Hearing Room to the cavernous Caucus...
Pointing up this problem, a recent California survey showed that 36 of 49 underground storage tanks in the high-tech Silicon Valley were leaking. The seepage contaminated surrounding soil and fouled pockets of ground water beneath such communities as Santa Clara, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and San Jose. The California assembly, following the lead of eight cities in Santa Clara County that have passed ordinances to prevent such spills, has approved a tough toxic control law. As the measure moves on to the state senate, the mellow industrialists of Silicon Valley, to their acute discomfort, find themselves accused of poisoning their...
...reader is free to choose at which level he wishes to enter the game and play along. The book can be read simply as a good mystery story, but a more inquiring mind (or pretentious intellect, as the case may be) can seek out the philosophical debates which lurk beneath the surface or track down the many parallels to modern life...