Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT WATCH. In this taut French thriller, five criminals trying to tunnel out of a Paris prison learn that a man can scratch and claw his way to freedom from everything but himself...
...into. To him, the little frost-free spot he saw in a limestone cliff suggested a cave entrance that had become plugged up. He stopped to probe the spot with a crowbar. Stones and dirt caved in; warm air whooshed out. Suddenly Astruc was staring into a narrow tunnel. "I was alone," he says, "afraid to go in very far, or stay very long...
...thought of the pedestrians walking just inches above us; how surprised they would have been had they known an expeditionary force was moving silently beneath their feet. Our musings were interrupted by a loud "Hello," from up ahead. It came from Dominic, a friendly other-side-of-the-river Tunnel man who was waiting to take us the rest of the way. Our South Yard guide, having reached the border of his territory, could proceed no farther. We waved goodbye as he turned around to go back, and then, with Dominic encouraging us, squeezed past the third arch...
Dominic welcomed us to his area of the Tunnel and explained that things were much cooler here (around 50 degrees) because less steam was needed at the Business School than on the Cambridge side. The Tunnel stretched straight out before us. A downward slope took us back underground, and then we started the long walk under the river bank and expressway toward the Business School. An uneventful five minute walk brought us to the McCulloch Hall operating station, from which, after exchanging farewells with Dominic, we left subterranean Harvard and returned to the Harvard of everyday experience...
...home--this time going over the Weeks Bridge instead of through it--we considered how remarkable it is that so few members of the Harvard community know anything at all about the more than three miles of tunnels underneath them. A garrulous old bum who used to spend the nights around Leverett House told an undergraduate last year that he often slept inside the Weeks Bridge where "it's warm and quiet." It seems odd that a bum and a Nazi spy should be more familiar with the Tunnel than most undergraduates, especially since the existence of the underground passages...