Word: tunnelled
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...Tonis said that the water supply would not he a problem, because most buildings connect by steam tunnel to the Indoor Athletic Building, where the swimming pool can be tapped as a source of potable water...
...recedes, its traumatic effect upon the American self-image will persist. The war has gone on so long, has so distorted American life, that in a sense it is difficult to imagine exactly what the nation will become without it. Perhaps, optimistically, the light at the end of the tunnel might now at least give Americans a truer vision of themselves...
...first moved cautiously. Even so, his meetings with the poor to work out a program quickly ran into resistance. A snake-handling fundamentalist preacher turned up to rail against the project as the work of either Communists or the devil. Community toughs ambushed one organizer in an abandoned railroad tunnel along Twelve-Pole Creek. Perry began to get death threats...
Fellini obviously intended this film to be a kind of ironic travelogue of the collapse of Rome. Visiting a subway tunnel under construction below the Roman streets, the film makers (in a scene lifted from A Director's Notebook) encounter a remnant of the ancient past-an old house with statues intact and frescoes that look, unfortunately, like WPA murals. Air from the outside is eating rapidly away at the paintings, turning them to dust. Later Fellini recruits Gore Vidal, perhaps the closest living descendant of Epicurus, to discourse ironically on Rome's inevitable disintegration. The film ends...
They were driven through a tunnel under the village to a strip of lawn 275 yards away that had been converted into an emergency helicopter pad. Two choppers took the Arabs and their hostages on a 25-minute ride to Fürstenfeldbruck airport; a third preceded them, carrying German officials and Israeli intelligence...