Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jail Tunnel. The results, starting with Westlake's The Fugitive Pigeon in 1965, have brought new life to a neglected subgenre: the caper novel. In The Spy in the Ointment (1966), a typographical error on an FBI list caused a pacifist to become mixed up with bomb-throwing subversives. In The Hot Rock (1970), a raffish foursome engineered several fiendishly clever jewel thefts in search of a rare emerald that turned out never to be where it was supposed to be. In Bank Shot (1972), a suburban bank temporarily operating out of a mobile home was robbed...
...think they discern film sprockets running down the sides of the pages. The hero, Harry Künt, is a practical joker, one of whose pranks has spectacularly misfired and landed him in prison. There he falls in with a group of cons who have access to a secret tunnel-not to escape by, but to use for a sort of shore leave to the neighboring town, where under assumed names they set up households, open charge accounts and join local bowling teams. Only after Harry Künt is initiated into the tunnel club does he learn that...
Although construction has begun on a water tunnel for the plant, a United States Court of Appeals last month ordered the Federal Power Commission to re-open licensing hearings on the grounds that the plant's effect on aquatic life in the river had not been adequately considered. The Commission has held hearings on two previous occasions and has twice issued construction licenses, most recently...
...whipping around the bottom floor of the building sealed the doors shut, and they had to be replaced with revolving doors at a cost of $60,000. Ann Landreth, public relations representative for Pei and Partners, explains that the building design was a common one, but that this wind-tunnel phenomenon "had never happened before...
Consolidated Edison has already begun construction of the plant's water tunnel, including excavation at the base of Storm King Mountain. Thomas Bush, a spokesman for the utility, said yesterday that all work was "proceeding normally" despite the court decision...