Word: passageway
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...other urban centers were bombed by Iraqi planes. Since then the attacks have abated, but the nervousness remains. When a severe thunder-and-lightning storm struck the capital last month, causing heavy flooding, some city dwellers thought an air raid was in progress and rushed to an underground passageway, where an unknown number drowned in the torrent...
Four years of research went into the passageway under a road near the River Thames, which should help some 10,000 toads to meet their mates in one piece. Puffed up by its initial success, the F.F.P.S. hopes to open several dozen more tunnels at toad crossings all over England. It is already chewing over the idea of opening a terrapin underpass...
...Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border with Mexico, the passageway for one-third of the drugs entering...
...Architects' Collaborative (TAC), whose offices adjoin the property, submitted its design for the replacement building. The plans call for a modern four-story office building of brick and limestone with stores or restaurants at street level and in the basement. The design includes a passageway from Brattle to Mt. Auburn...
...Fixing this bridge won't be easy," Milton Graton says, shaking his head as he surveys the long wood-covered passageway across the Connecticut River. "It's a complicated job. If it's done right, the bridge will be around a long time. But if it isn't, it could just fall in the river...