Word: subterraneanly
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...atom bombs, but added a comforting note: "War with this weapon will not be completely unendurable in a country adequately prepared and strong enough to withstand the first onslaught. The length of the war would certainly be increased by adequate dispersion of great industrial areas and the construction of subterranean factories. . . . We can expect war to continue until . . . the will to resist is finally broken...
...dogged persistence of Stalin's mind, free from the perils of individual inspiration, they sensed a character for whom organization and discipline are indispensable to achievement. In his craftiness, they sensed a personal expression of their organizational need for subterranean conspiracy. In his brutality, they sensed a capacity for the terrorism with which a revolutionary minority must always exert its rule over an overwhelming majority. In his intellectual aridity, they sensed an embodiment of that bleakness inseparable from a philosophy which makes man, even for his ultimate greater glory, the pawn of purely materialist forces...
...World War II's Warsaw and Monte Cassino will be remembered. And yet, as Poland under her conquerors has gone from disaster to disaster, the tradition of struggle by patience and stealth has replaced the tradition of chivalry. Last week a Western diplomat, commenting on the stories of subterranean terror by both left and right in Poland, said: "The Poles fight better underground...
...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...more of a sight to the doughboys was the fabulous Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest), Hitler's 20th-century eyrie on a peak west of Bad Nauheim. The rock-hewn retreat, served by three miles of subterranean corridors, sported 1,000 air-conditioned rooms with hidden exposures of the rustic scene below...