Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buildings would rise on the sites, linked by a tunnel under the street...
...City Council will only be concerned with the tunnel under Cambridge Street. However, if Harvard can't get the approval of any of the other boards--which are concerned with issues including the destruction of Coolidge Hall and the moving of several houses on the site--then that dispute will be referred to the council as well...
...Dutch railway officials have planned to play Bach and Beethoven works in the station's pedestrian tunnel, in the hope that it will drive away drug users for 7,200 minutes...
...point I saw Death. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended to become a tunnel. He expected me to yield, to go in. This filled me with abhorrence, a hatred of nonbeing. In that moment I realized that there is nothing, nothing whatsoever, outside of the life we have; that the "meaning of life" is nothing other than life itself, obstinately asserting itself against emptiness. Life was so powerful, so demanding, and in my concussion and delirium, even as my systems were shutting down, I wanted it so much...
...life. I am a skeptic to whom the idea that a benign God created us and watches over us is somewhere between a fairy story and a poor joke. People of a religious bent are apt, under such conditions, to see the familiar images of near-death experience--the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end, as featured in the memoirs of a score of American K Mart mystics. Jesus must have been busy when my turn came: he didn't show. There was, as far as I could tell, absolutely nothing divine on the other side...