Word: subterraneanly
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What "Big Red" says, goes. Oklahoma is constitutionally bone-dry, but licenses 3.2 beer, which is dispensed in the subterranean cafeteria of the domeless State House. But "Big Red" mortally hates liquor, fires out of hand employes who drink on duty. If you were to order beer in the State House cafeteria this week, chances are the waitress would ask guardedly: "Do you want it in a paper cup?" If you were a State employe, you'd say "Yes." She would keep the bottle out of sight and you'd pick up some mints...
Because he was loved for his humanitarian spirit by most newspapermen, be cause he was gracious and a subtle theorist, Heywood Broun's own personality had kept harmony in the Guild. But with Broun gone, there was more than a possibility that these subterranean dissensions might erupt into open revolt...
...Istanbul Observatory's announcement that the Turkish epicentre was 16 miles underground, led earthquake experts to warn that there would probably be further shocks, perhaps for as long as six months. There are many faults under Turkey, and seismologists predicted it would take some time for a new subterranean balance to be achieved...
...came, the custodians of Europe's civilization knew it would mean a long silence for man's communion with literature and art. But they were ready for it, sure that somehow knowledge would survive in the dark chambers and subterranean crypts where they had secreted...
...Under New York City are about 45,000 miles of pipes, conduits, mains and ducts for water, gas, electricity, telephone and telegraph. By concentrating on these subterranean life lines "a small crew of saboteurs could probably make New York uninhabitable within seventy-two hours...