Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...west, some eight miles from the Montego Bay airport, is famed Round Hill-less of a jet-set fairground than it was five years ago, but still a cosmopolitan cluster of airy shareholder houses around a crescent bathing cove that is carefully combed for spiky sea urchins and other subterranean surprises. If their owners are away, visitors may be able to rent the Henry Tiarkses' capacious "cottage" (British Press Lord Esmond Rothermere is currently in residence), or the William Paleys' swimming-pooled pavilion (where both President Kennedy and Princess Margaret have stayed...
...January 1959, eight months before the French, but soon lost the advantage of their head start, for the glacier-squeezed southern Alpine rock was dangerously brittle, collapsed regularly, requiring extra bracing for the tunnel roof; cascades of underground water often streamed into the tunnel, almost drowning drillers under subterranean waterfalls. The French, plagued by fewer engineering difficulties but disrupted by three months of labor strikes, hinted darkly that the Italians got to the halfway mark first by drilling a narrower tunnel in the final weeks. The Italians insisted they had done so only because of crumbling rock; the Rome press...
...baseball and race-track clubhouses, enabling ticket holders to watch the main event on television from the convivial comfort of the bar. Furthermore, scarcely a corridor or a dressing room in the 2,612-seat concert hall will be out of range of a television camera. From the subterranean garage, where VIPs will disembark from limousines, to the rooftops overlooking the plaza, the whole place will be bugged for sight and sound...
Nine years ago Nathan M. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, to become President of an enormous institution built on layer after layer of sedimented traditions. A slow and delicate play of subterranean forces had brought it to its current stature, a vast and complex machinery that it would be foolish to meddle with too deeply. The University might change, but it would have to change more through a process of natural evolution than through administrative decisions initiating and guiding change...
Midway in Jacques Offenbach's frothy operetta La Perichole, a trapdoor opens slowly onstage; from the depths of a subterranean dungeon emerges a doddering old prisoner. He has been digging through various walls for twelve years, and now he is ready to escape. He lasts no more than four minutes onstage before he is forced to flee through the trap again. But to Offenbach fans at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the sequence is one of the comic highpoints of the evening. The man responsible: Italian-born Tenor Alessio de Paolis (pronounced: Pow-o-lees...