Word: nether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheating fuels the so-called underground economy, the nether world of business where payments are made in cash for everything from dental care to marijuana. A major purpose of operating in the underground economy, of course, is to avoid taxes...
...Army captain, Taylor hiked the dusty plains of China in 1937 beside "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, studying the advance of the Japanese army. In the eerie nether light of 3 a.m. on June 6,1944, Taylor-by then a brigadier general -floated to earth behind Utah Beach in Normandy, gathered a handful of his men from the 101st Airborne Division and secured one of the causeways over which troops from the Allied armada would march onto mainland Europe. Later he served as Army Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Now, at 80, he is a guardian...
...list goes on, into the obscure nether-world of comicdom where mere Comic Peasants are hopelessly lost: Swamp Thing, Weird War Tales, Dragon Lord, Moon Knight, Kazar the Savage, Scalphunter, Ms. Marvel, Phoenix, the Black Panther, Captain Canuck (published by "Comely Comix" in Manitoba, Canada), and Doctor Strange--doing combat in "Reality...
...woman and two small children. Next summer, more coffins were unearthed, all decorated with human masks, wigged in the Egyptian manner and topped by Egyptian lotus flowers. Inside were the remains of long-faced, large-skulled people of apparently Egyptian origin. For their voyage to the nether world, they were accompanied by such Egyptian burial adornments as seals and scarabs, solid-gold teardrop earrings, beads of gold and carnelian (reddish quartz), lotus-shaped alabaster goblets. The coffins even contained alabaster spoons, in the shape of a swimming girl, to apply cosmetics. Some of the seals bore the name of Ramses...
...from the viewpoints of those who disagree. The set of beliefs produces a system where only the most confident (some would say arrogant) and aggressive in the bunch get the undergraduate education that Harvard University should be giving each of its students. The rest, left to flounder in the nether reaches of the Economics, Biology or History departments and to deal with professors who should have given up teaching long ago, are chewed up and forgotten. They emerge four years later, having become part of a process that teaches you to answer questions but never to ask them...