Word: subterranean
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...waste right in the heart of the city. Last week a plan to devote that space to a new kind of big-city better living was put before New Yorkers. Perhaps nothing will ever make New York truly livable until the streets are gardens and the traffic is subterranean, but the new plan offers a realistic promise of traffic-free isolation in at least one area. The scheme: transform the all but deserted Welfare Island into a development where, as Architect Victor Gruen says, "all that is disturbing in modern-day city life is placed underground...
...soul which starts by ravaging one noble custom and then infects all, until it has denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
...office party, or so it seems, and the mail clerk has had just enough vodka and cranberry juice to get up and pulsate with song. But the office is really Manhattan's subterranean Copacabana, one of the best-known bomb shelters in the world, and the mail clerk is little Bobby Darin, a $350,000-a-year corporation with ducktail by Lilly Dach...
...White House, Jack Kennedy answers the phone, says, "Hello . . . Oh, hello, Father . . . Yes, Father . . . Certainly, Father . . . Goodbye, Father." As he hangs up. Wife Jackie asks: "Was that home or Rome?" ¶It is in the early days of the Kennedy Administration. All is quiet in the subterranean war room of U.S. Defense Headquarters. Suddenly a light flashes on the desk of the top general on duty. He checks quickly, discovers that the Russians have just unleashed a flock of atomic missiles against the U.S. Instantly, the general grabs his "hot phone'' to the White House, snaps: "Mr. President...
Most obvious surfacing of this subterranean dispute is the growing rivalry between the Communist partners for dominance in the emergent new nations of Africa, the restless nations of Latin America. In Communist eyes, this means competition for the ultimate domination of the world...