Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...churn their way out of a vast mudhole that turns into a pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign that reads NO DUNKING ALLOWED. At Rivers barracks near Giessen, nearly 3,000 soldiers are crammed into what was a Wehrmacht military prison during World War II. "The tip-off is that the barbed-wire-fence topping points in, not out," says an officer stationed there...
...subsided, replaced by the muted cries of the injured and terrified, the carnage was staggering: 108 people lay dead in the atrium of the sleek, 40-story Hyatt Regency Hotel. More than 180 were injured, and at least three more died later. Some victims were pinned for hours beneath the tons of steel, cement and cables. Said Mayor Richard Berkley: "It was the worst disaster in the history of Kansas City...
...cruel enough that the collapse occurred when the lobby was at its most crowded. But even more people died because the lobby's makeshift ballroom and the main exits happened to be directly beneath the plummeting walkways. Said Betty Webb: "The first thing I knew I was on the bottom and some girl was on top of me. We were just piled up helter-skelter and the structure was on top of us." A chunk of walkway came thudding down a few feet from Tea Dance Veteran Julie Halford. "The impact threw me against a concrete railing," she said...
...only by cutting off his leg. On Saturday morning, with the hotel exhibition hall serving as a morgue, the fingerprinting of corpses was under way. Puddles of bloody water covered the lobby floor. Ten survivors were trapped until 6 a.m. The last slab was lifted at 7:45 a.m. Beneath it were 31 bodies...
Though Phelps celebrates females who have brains and energy, her feminist lens at times distorts the drama beneath the surface of folk tales. As Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim made clear in The Uses of Enchantment, most protagonists in fairy tales are passive because the children who listen to them feel at the mercy of events and want to be reassured. Beauty or handsomeness is a routine signal to the child of moral worth...