Word: subterranean
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...lack of office space also hinders continuity in student activities from one year to another. The rate of attrition of student groups, The rate of attrition of student groups, always large, is thus increased. The Conservative Club and the Subterranean Review lose half their members every year...
Freud said that all humor is displaced anger, but that is news to Leno. "I was never angry," he says. "I could never relate to comedians like Lenny Bruce." But beneath Leno's "What, me worry?" exterior, there does lurk a subterranean anger. "It's so stupid," he says, uttering this phrase perhaps 20 times a day, pronouncing the word "stew-pid." He sees a newspaper ad describing a knife as "perfect for a night out on the town." He shakes his head. "It's so stew-pid." Small-mindedness irks him; he can tolerate anything but intolerance...
...southern lip of the Black Sea have wagered their lives to dig the riches of coal. At 8 p.m. last Tuesday, 265 miners lost that gamble when a methane explosion bellowed from deep within the Incirharmani mine outside the city of Kozlu, instantly transforming miles of galleries into a subterranean conflagration of toxic gas. Rescuers pulled out 118 bodies before the inferno forced them to seal the passages with cinder blocks, entombing the remaining victims in the still burning mine...
...damp subterranean basement which was their prison cell caused the two to become severely ill and Eli is said to have contracted tuberculosis. Last May, in a closed trial, the brothers were officially charged with "illegally traveling to enemy-occupied territory" and sentenced to six and one-half years in prison, where they remain to this...
After Bush's latest foray, the President's subterranean political network in Washington sent a message: get him back up on his presidential pedestal. There remains in this nation despite hard times a huge reservoir of regard and respect for the presidency. Anyone inside or outside the White House who tampers with it diminishes himself...