Word: subterraneanly
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...States as on Corregidor and its satellites (Forts Drum, Hughes and Frank), men took heart. Jonathan Wainwright was no hollow-voiced orator, to fire his people with false hopes. If he said it could be done, maybe it could. In the corridors and subterranean rooms of The Rock, the new arrivals were swiftly put to work making life tough...
...kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point in S. K.'s relations with the anti-Fascist "underground"-the cryptic groups that with sabotage, strikes, espionage, propaganda and murder wage an unremitting subterranean war to overthrow Mussolini and his Blackshirts...
Communications between General MacArthur's headquarters and the War Department in Washington are naturally through military channels, which the War Department naturally keeps subterranean. But the forces on Bataan are far from being dependent on such bulletins...
...James Laurens ("Daisy") Van Alen, goldplated, blue-haired blue-blood of Newport, engaged a bomb-shelter expert to build a subterranean luxury shelter on her estate with all the comforts of home, air conditioning, special lighting effects, a tunnel to the mansion. She also laid in an eight-year supply of cosmetics...
...three subterranean levels, one passes completely out of the period style of the upper rooms into the stacks, of the very latest design, which will accomodate the great majority of the present total of 10,000 books. Illuminated by blue tubular lights, the stacks are made to attract bequests from private collectors since a section of the shelves can be set off and made into a separate room devoted entirely, to one collection...