Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage. The camera picks the onlooker up, sits him down hard only two seats away from that subway succubus, and then forces him to sit there with his palms sweating while the danger builds and builds and builds like the brain-stabbing squeal of steel wheels in a turning tunnel...
...Accomplished by digging and wiring a tunnel from West to East Berlin, which caved in only because East German street laborers inadvertently hit a weak spot while working on a routine job in 1956. * National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Atomic Energy Commission, State Department Intelligence and Research, Air Force Intelligence, Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Having already uncovered and blasted more than 500 Viet Cong tunnels in the Iron Triangle, U.S. soldiers last week snared the biggest nest of all: a vast underground city in Ho Bo woods on the triangle's western flank that almost surely housed the headquarters of the Viet Cong's Fourth Military Region, which includes Saigon. Heavily booby-trapped, it contained French and U.S. maps, diagrams of the hotels and billets that house Americans in Saigon, detailed plans for the Viet Cong suicide attack on Tan Son Nhut Airport last Dec. 4, typewriters, medical supplies, officers' sidearms...
Gerald Holton walked across his office to a convenient blackboard and drew a picture of a funnel. "Kids start out as a very non-homogeneous mix," he commented, sketching oddly shaped particles floating over the wide end of the tunnel. "Octohedrons, decahedrons . . . but" -- he elongated the funnel -- "by the time they get through high school and college, they are all the same...
...wind tunnel, loud...