Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper part of the Siq, before it reaches the city, they built a stone dam 45 ft. high and 140 ft. long. The dam was not designed to hold an entire flood, only to check its water and divert it into a system of guide walls and a tunnel one-quarter mile long cut through a sandstone ridge. The water was finally discharged into the comparatively broad Wadi Mataha and Wadi Musa (Valley of Moses), where it would do no damage...
Until recently, the ancient dam was a wreck, but the rest of the extraordinary system is still in good condition. The tunnel needs nothing but cleaning out. Last week repairs were well under way, guided by Engineer Oliver Fulsom of the U.S. Water Control Mission. The dam is rising once more and will eventually look just about as it did 2,000 years ago. No major improvements are contemplated; the ancient Nabataeans had thought of everything...
Death in the Tunnel. The outrage that touched off the government reprisal was a vicious F.A.L.N. raid on an excursion train carrying picnickers to a park 25 miles from Caracas. Hearing rumors that the F.A.L.N. might dynamite the tracks, the army put eight soldiers from its elite National Guard aboard the train. But there was no dynamite; simple killing was the F.A.L.N.'s object. With the December elections so near, it is going to any lengths to undermine Betancourt's government. As the ten-car train approached a tunnel, some 30 young terrorists aboard drew guns and went...
Eyes on the Sea. Litton has its share of space projects: it made the first space chamber and spacesuit, is making a relief map of the moon so that astronauts will know what they are in for, has created a wind tunnel that simulates the problems of re-entry by speeding up gases. But Thornton is convinced that "there isn't room in space for all the companies trying to get there," has turned the company's eyes downward into the sea. Ingalls has five contracts worth $145 million to build the Navy's new nuclear-powered...
...past, the say has always been resoundingly negative. Though Queen Victoria liked the notion of a tunnel as a potential cure for her seasickness, she found it "very objectionable" in principle. In the 1880s, when an early tunnel project actually bored two miles into the chalk near Dover, the Sunday Times worried that "We should have an amount of fraternizing between the discontented denizens of the great cities . . . which would yield very unsatisfactory results on this side of the Channel...