Word: subterranean
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...ROOM OF ONE'S own is a preoccupation for all ages. When the room is only a barren subterranean stage for three women more or less abandoned by their husbands, it really can't be big enough for more than one of them. S.J. Bergman's one act play uses that fact as an excuse to wander through the past lives and possible futures of three working class London women who range from early middle-age to terminal...
...Moscow commissar, sporting the kind of heavy leather trench coat that suggests Slavic villainy the way a black stetson in a western signals evil. He takes special delight in tor turing Jews. After inflicting one especially impassioned beating, Harvey makes his way out of the traditionally dank subterranean cell as an awestruck underling inquires, "What now? Are you going back to the office...
...scientists have every reason to be happy. In photographs of the U.S. West, for example, geologists discovered previously unknown faults in California's Monterey region. They also spotted remnants of an old volcano near Reno, Nev., that seems to be undergoing gradual uplifting by subterranean forces. In Oklahoma, scientists detected timber that had been harmed by exposure to the powerful chemical defoliant 245-T as part of a field-clearing effort; earlier observations by plane had failed to spot the damage. Off Cape Cod, the satellite quickly showed oceanographers what changes currents are causing in the topography...
...lowpoints are subterranean. An article called "The CIA's Superpilots Spill the Beans" is probably the first thing outside of the right-wing press to romanticize the war in Vietnam since John Wayne made "The Green Berets." Then there's an interview with Marlon Brando that treats him like a deity and asks him such probing questions as "Do you believe there are limits to the power to persuasion?" and "Are you worried about your image...
...then a hot line was humming between Munich, Bonn-where Chancellor Brandt had been awakened with the news at 6:35-and Jerusalem. In Israel, where it was one hour later, Premier Golda Meir summoned her senior advisers to the subterranean Cabinet room of the Knesset building. It did not take them long to decide: 1) not to negotiate with the terrorists or release any prisoners, 2) to tell the Germans that they had full responsibility for any rescue action and 3) to indicate that Israel would not object should the Germans give the terrorists safe-conduct...