Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate, their tunnel doorways drifted over with sand-leaving after perhaps 5,000 years an almost perfect subject for archaeological study. Beside the ash-filled fireplaces stood bowls and cups. Tools were neatly stacked. Last offerings to the gods were laid out on the floors, and storage bins held enough grain to feed the inhabitants who never came home...
Terror's Strength. Last week 18-year-old Fannie Robbins and four other women were working at a drying tunnel in the Defense Plant's "B" Building Annex. Part of an order of 12 million M-80 firecrackers, used by the Army to condition troops to noise, had taken on moisture and had to be warmed by the tunnel's fluorescent light. Fannie was putting firecrackers in the tunnel. Suddenly there was a "great big flash of light." Bits of glass flew into Fannie's eyes, but she managed to grope...
...Vice President Wellwood Beall, Boeing's engineering department has grown into an army of more than 5,000 top designers, engineers and draftsmen. To build better planes, Boeing this year will spend nearly $5,000,000 on research alone. It will also build a new high-velocity wind tunnel to produce speeds of 1,100 m.p.h...
...Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries. A punny farce about sin and redemption in suburban Connecticut (TIME...
...Other Colonel. In Guatemala City, that day, another colonel strode tight-lipped along the underground tunnel that leads from the executive mansion via an elevator to the presidential office on the second floor of the city's avocado-green National Palace. President Jacobo Arbenz, the stubborn, enigmatic career soldier who had started the trouble in the first place by flinging wide the palace doors and welcoming Communists into his government, had plenty to think about. But he may have taken a moment to recall that Castillo Armas had once been a school mate, a fellow graduate of the country...