Word: subterranean
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This summer, the fetes became a vital to some interns after collegiates were barred from the Senate's subterranean cafeterias to cut down waits on the checkout line. But there's more to it than that: where else can you see the likes of Howell Heflin chowing down courtesy of the National Pork Rind Processors...
...silt sediments deposited from rivers, bays and inlets over the past 5,000 to 8,000 years. As the sediments gradually compress under their own weight, the surface sinks lower. On the Gulf Coast, a process called subsidence, caused in part by the extraction of groundwater and petroleum from subterranean layers of sand and clay, has forced the land, already virtually at sea level, to drop 3 ft. a century. In all, the coastline of the northeastern U.S. may recede an average of 200 ft. in the next 50 years; in some parts of Florida, where the land is flatter...
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...
After nearly two decades of a subterranean existence, one of the two largest broods of the 17-year cicadas (pronounced suh-kay-duhs) is back. During the next few weeks and continuing through early July, the Eastern U.S. from Georgia to New York and as far west as Illinois will become infested with these mysterious insects, which emerge from the ground every 17 years to mate and die. This year, as in previous appearances, their numbers are likely to reach into the millions to the acre. The greatest concentrations are expected in the suburbs of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and Cincinnati...
...down at my word processor, ready to write. Nothing came out. I was blocked. Blank. The most profound nothingness this side of Proust. I sucked in the primordial void and then barfed till all was meaninglessness, my brain a cranial subterranean pool of anti-meaning...