Word: subsoil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utmost ambition," Robert Frost claimed, "is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of." He succeeded. Fragments of Frost's handmade poems turn up in the subsoil of the American mind like arrowheads or old farm tools...
...Japan, it normally handles about 30% of all the country's container shipping. Last week only 27 of 191 berths remained in working order, none of them slips for container carriers. Finished just two years ago, the facilities on the artificial island of Rokko suffered collapse of the subsoil. The 7.2-magnitude seism had in effect turned the harbor landfill to jelly. The unsettled earth sideslipped violently and became waterlogged as the sea penetrated...