Word: burrowings
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Their fantastic energy is what makes them interesting. Even twenty billion volts is not the best they can do, and this is 200 times the energy of the champion electrons from General Electric's giant betatron. Cosmic rays can burrow hundreds of feet into the ground or penetrate 75 ft. of lead. Some, less energetic, are thought to be secondary particles scattered in showers when a primary particle hits an atom in the atmosphere...
...this type to come out of the war. If its only effective shots were the fearful pictures of the captured Italian underground leader about to die from German torture, and if the man's screams were the only stunning use of sound in the movie, "Open City" would burrow deep into the memory. If its epic simplicity were its only virtue, it would nonetheless rank as a fine motion picture...
Down South there was Winston Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
Still unused to battle, the Chinese advanced through Myitkyina then were driven out. Their retreat ended short of the airfield, but it gave the Japanese time to burrow for a long, costly struggle...
...Rocky Mountain area, where ticks have been carrying the fever since Indian days, people are not jittery about it. They know that only one tick in 300 is infected, that he must bite and burrow for several hours in order to transmit the infection. But in the East, where the fever has been recognized for only a dozen years, many people are afraid to walk in the woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever...