Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the day, when the demand for electricity in New York City is high, the stored water would be allowed to rush through a 40-foot-high tunnel carved through Storm King Mountain. At the base of Storm King, this water will then drive a series of turbine generators...
...Israelis want more than security. They want peace. Yet they don't know how their war will end. "We are in a tunnel," said a university student. "It is dark, and we cannot see the end. But we cannot live without believing that there...
Aboard Apollo, the astronauts remained remarkably cool. Once Mission Control gave the order to begin the "lifeboat mode"?a procedure that had been rehearsed numerous times in ground simulators?Lovell and Haise drifted, like mariners abandoning ship, through the darkened tunnel connecting the command ship with the lunar lander...
...earth, the astronauts began preparing for their final separation maneuver. Climbing into Odyssey, they switched on its oxygen tanks and batteries and sealed the hatch shut. Then the crew exploded the small bolts connecting the command module with the LM. Propelled by the release of air in the connecting tunnel, the Aquarius drifted rapidly away, its lifeboat function reliably and amply fulfilled. "LM jettison," reported Apollo 13. "O.K.," replied Mission Control. "Farewell, Aquarius, and we thank...
Winding ever higher, the Cal Zephyr disappears into the dank blackness of the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel, which crosses the Continental Divide at an elevation of 9,239 ft. After the train emerges, H.C. Livingstone lights an after-dinner cigar and remembers aloud how he worked on the tunnel until its completion in 1928. "There were a lot of bad accidents on that job," he recalls. "In the four years it took to finish it, 81 workers were killed...