Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traditional wateringholes are flooded with visitors in search of rivers to raft down, cliffs to leap from, lakes to tube across and waterfalls to shower beneath. But for those with something more elaborate in mind, the designers at Disney present Typhoon Lagoon and Splash Mountain, the ultimate in amusement parks...
...tenor of the meeting was that somehow Harvard was selling itself short, that the only purpose of this was to make money, that it was beneath Harvard to do this sort of thing," said Mckay Professor of Applied Mathematics Roger W. Brockett...
...rainy Budapest, beneath the huge statue of Lajos Kossuth, Hungary's greatest figure of independence, the President bounded down from the stage after brief remarks, stripped off his borrowed raincoat and wrapped it around a soaked, startled and utterly smitten old woman, who had to fend off other onlookers grabbing for her new prize...
Hundreds of feet beneath the ground outside the Swiss town of Meyrin, near Geneva, a six-year, $660 million construction project is rushing toward a payoff. Workers at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) have excavated a 12-ft.-wide circular tunnel that is 16 miles in circumference, installed nearly 5,000 powerful electromagnets, and put along the ring four massive detectors, each weighing several tons but sensitive to the passage of a single subatomic particle. This week, if all goes according to plan, technicians will begin test runs of the largest scientific instrument in the world...
...beneath the arrogance he wears like a badge of honor is the deeper, profound racial anger that fueled Do the Right Thing. "Racism usually erodes self-confidence. It seems to have triggered his," observes actress Ruby Dee, who plays Mother Sister in Do the Right Thing. The Howard Beach incident, in which a black man died after being chased onto a freeway by a white mob -- an expression in Lee's mind of a double standard inflicted on blacks -- inspired the film. Even the controversy that erupted over his use at the end of the film of a Malcolm...