Word: subterranean
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...posture was partially prompted by Lyndon Johnson's America the Beautiful campaign, but more important, it reflected recent technological developments that had made subterranean wiring economically feasible. In the past, power companies could bury the wires but not the large, boxlike transformers, which were almost as offensive as the old wires. Developers balked not only at the cost but also at the fact that every sixth house had to have a transformer, and the lot with the transformer on it was always hard to sell, even at a reduced price...
Technology has a way of re-enacting poetry. West Germany is currently considering a network of Autobahnen im Dunkeln, or highways in the dark: huge subterranean pipelines that will carry industrial waste and scrap to the coast, dump them into the ocean and form new land. "Under green fields, under our feet," writes an awed British journalist, "the thick current of Germany's yesterday will creep endlessly down to the sea." The scheme is symbolic of contemporary Germany; for 20 years, its people have sought to eliminate the rubbish of their past and build anew...
Neutrality & Conservatism. Something like the fairy-tale gnomes that guarded subterranean treasures, Swiss bankers speak sparingly, avoid social ostentation, and bury their money-two floors below ground level in vaults that are built to withstand even nuclear at tack. Nearly half the deposits are in the vaults of five banks along Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse. In addition to the Union Bank, they are the Swiss Credit Bank, the Swiss Bank Corp., and-much smaller-the Swiss Popular Bank...
...exhaust pipes, shock absorbers, grease guns and tireless wheels. On the lower level, he amassed heaps of railroad ties, packing boxes, oversized inner tubes pierced with spikes, and coils of baling wire-"the residue of industrial decay to show the decadent state of the kingdom, a kind of subterranean...
...Circular in shape, it was crisscrossed with trenches camouflaged by fast-growing yam plants and running for hundreds of yards among concealed barracks roofed with thatch. Below the redoubt were huge, man-made caverns 60 feet underground, honeycombed with tunnels. At one point, eight tunnels converged into a large subterranean room that was complete with tables, chairs and Viet Cong flags...