Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker writes of blood, mixed now with white; slave rebellion; slave capture. "Me, Ezra, and Mamma was all hid in a tunnel behind the wall of the cabin when light flashed between the slits in the board..." A few pages and generations later, a young American black man, well dressed, we assume, money in his pocket, we assume, watches poor blacks in the Caribbean and thinks, "I wanted a connection to these people, wanted to share pots of curried goat and warm lager in Trenchertown because I was one of them." Imagining: "Black people gonna rise up." Knowing sheepishly...
Deep below the city streets, Water Tunnel Three, one of the largest construction projects in American history, will bring pure water from upstate New York to Manhattan. What city planners didn't count on was that the water tunnel project would also bring together the Mafia and the Irish Mob of Hell's Kitchen in a plot to eradicate the unions and increase the bottom line...
Still, the family ties run deep: Billy and Paddy's father was the first of twenty-three men to die in the construction of Water Tunnel Three twenty years earlier, and Billy has returned to Hell's Kitchen once more to work as a sandhog in the tunnel to pay for his first year of law school. If the union disintegrates, he may not be able to make the money he needs to move beyond the streets of Hell's Kitchen and into a new world...
Besides the general loss of revenue, drivers complained that the flat rates were passed before a $1 increase in the cost of the tunnel that cabs take to the airport...
Imagine that the true spirit of the season infused our people. Imagine that the rush for the 64-bit sensation Spatterguts III dissipated, that the latest digital-audio-video-cellular phenomenon inflicted carpal-tunnel syndrome on shoppers as they whipped out credit cards. Our consumer-electronics industry took in $6.7 billion in sales last December--nearly 15% of its total sales. What would happen to the game designers, the assemblers, the shippers and the clerks in all those consumer-electronics stores? Unemployment, thank you very much...