Word: subterranean
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...tossed off facetiously in "Subterranean Homesick Blues," (Opus...
...left Dietz, once again, with nothing more than scratch. "I still haven't landed or alighted in a job, and am neither married not with children," he wrote in his class report for 1947. But, after a few lean months in a subterranean brownstone apartment in New York, all that changed. Dietz worked in a ladies' hosiery plant, then with a tie manufacturing company, and finally dreamed up the Six-Footer Company. And he met his wife, Annabelle...
...frequency and ferocity of the attacks have declined. Observes one local politician: "At certain rallies, in the heat of local campaigns there are likely to be anti-Harvard groups, they [the political candidates] may make anti-Harvard speeches. But it has to be very limited, and, in my opinion, subterranean. People don't make public blasts that they might make to small groups or a neighborhood gathering...
...Myles na gCopaleen, he wrote a satirical column for the Irish Times; he died in Dublin on April 1. But in all three identities, he was a great kidder. At Swim, first published in London in 1939 and twelve years later in New York, has since gathered a subterranean reputation-and thus this new edition-as possibly the most maddeningly complicated book ever written. It is also funny, once the reader gets used to the suspicion that the biggest joke...
...Viet Cong, a shovel is as important as a rifle. Steadily increasing pressure from American ground and air power has literally pushed the Reds underground, and in the past few years they have carved out a subterranean Viet Nam that is every bit as complex as the surface one. Every city is ringed by miles of intricate tunnels; Red redoubts in the countryside are riddled with sniper-manned "spiderholes," command bunkers, storage vaults, and even underground hospitals with electricity and running water...