Word: subterranean
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Dusty, my city: Long Island Railroad leaves me in my city, to walk dusty through streets of commuters (resentful) and cripples (dying), or risk ultimate trip (subterranean) and possible brain damage. I choose the underground; I must admit I generally enjoy the subways here (not Boston's sterile parody), in much the same way I might enjoy a roller coaster, a truly garish wedding, or a Fellini movie...
...Jack Healy. Scientists are also studying the minute tilting of the ground that may precede quakes and the slow fault "creep" of those parts of the San Andreas that are moving freely. They are measuring the minute warping of rock along "locked" areas, changes that reflect the gigantic, subterranean forces urging that part of California west of the fault to move toward Alaska. In addition, the electrical and magnetic properties of rocks have been found to depend upon the amount of strain the rocks are undergoing. Predicts Jerry Eaton, Menlo Park's chief scientist: "We will be able...
...must place part of the blame on the fact that landing on the moon was much duller than any story could have been. The astronauts found no subterranean insect monsters (H. G. Wells), prehistoric monoliths (Arthur C. Clark), deadly, suffocating moondust (Howard Fast). We are all bored. Even the staff at Cape Kennedy is quitting without having been brainwashed by the Spiderman from Mercury. The scientists themselves are more concerned about the marital problems their involvement with machines has caused. And they no longer speak with a German accent left over from a great world war. No more will...
There are various theories to explain the herpetic invasion. According to one, an unusually heavy rainfall in 1968 forced the snakes out of their hillside habitat. Another suggests that exploratory oil drilling caused subterranean reverberations that drove the snakes into residential areas. But the drilling stopped last year and the rain has been light this season, and still they come...
...Pozzuolians find their slow-motion earthquake puzzling, so do scientists at the University of Naples' Institute of Earth Sciences. They speculate that the dramatic changes have been caused by a sudden shifting of subterranean masses of molten rock, or magma, that well up from deep inside the earth through fractures in its crust. As the magma presses into new regions, it raises the earth on top of it. At the same time, land some distance away may gradually subside to fill the area vacated by the molten rock. That could account for a six-inch drop in the level...