Word: tunnelled
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...paralyzed, you thrash to hear the sound and there is none. Johnny Bench is in Pete Rose's arms, and the ball is high above shallow center. Everyone knows this now. No one is covering third base, but Yasztremski is invisibly flying to the dugout and the dark tunnel behind it to the locker room. The ball descends. Cesar Geronimo extends his arm and it is swallowed up. The gigantic humming cluster of Reds is swarming and heaving and falling over itself like a nest of insects to its dugout and its own locker room. The ball is discarded somewhere...
...problem is that the tunnel has sprung a $200,000 leak, and city manager James L. Sullivan said this week he will initiate a suit against Harvard to recover the costs of the repairs...
...Maguire, Inc., the same firm that said the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library would have a "minimal impact" on Harvard Square, conducted a feasibility study on the tunnel and the De Mateo Construction Company built it. Afterwards, the University turned it over to Cambridge...
Conrad C. Fagone, commissioner of public works, said Tuesday that the defects in the tunnel were present in the original construction. Because the tunnel was improperly sealed, he said, water seeps into it when it rains, freezing during the winter and creating hazardous driving conditions...
Repairs on the tunnel have been an issue between the University and the city for a number of years, and last fall the city threatened to sue Harvard for alleged faulty workmanship in the University's construction of the underpass...