Word: bottomless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deep Tunnel, as it is known, has turned into a bottomless pit. The deeper it goes, the more money it costs, and the sharper the questions about the wisdom of the venture. The excavation, which is about 10% dug, is useless unless it is finished. But it will take the next 20 years to complete and cost $11 billion. What's more, it cannot operate without an additional $1.6 billion in hook-up costs for the 150 communities involved, and they do not have the money...
House libraries can be excellent spots for long-range study, especially since you can (almost permanently) leave your books and memorabilia lying around in a pigpen sprawl. Leverett has the most handsome library, but it may get stuffy, and both it and Winthrop House boast bottomless cushioned chairs. For chugging on late at night. House libraries are your best...
...seemed possible we might work our way through a bottomless cup of coffee and a stack of chocolate chip pancakes in relative quiet, unhassled by anything more complicated than figuring out the tip. Lulled by the reassuring buzz of the enormous glowing purple fly killer on the wall, I only wanted to hunker down over my order, and check out my fellow urban refugees who crowded the place. As the night went on, however, the crowd grew stranger. Any hope of calm was destroyed, and a hasty retreat became the only course left...
...black hole? The name is highly appropriate. Nothing?not even light?can escape from black holes, making them invisible. Even more astounding, these bizarre non-objects are in effect celestial vacuum cleaners that voraciously devour everything they meet. They are bottomless pits into which atomic particles, dust and giant suns all disappear without a trace. They are rips in the very fabric of space and time, places where long-cherished laws of nature simply do not apply. So unbelievable and paradoxical are these notions that they have led to what Wheeler calls "the greatest crisis ever faced by physics." Says...
Bullshit about reality, drooling obnoxious idiots -- reality's bottomless-pit Nirvana was in his living room, the truth in a six-pack and a color television...