Word: tunnelling
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...where balloons and box kites were sent up to observe weather conditions. In 1936 it came under the control of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which began to dig an experimental mine into the mountain 250 ft. to 300 ft. below the surface along an east-west axis. The tunnel, which extended a scant quarter-mile and measured 7 ft. wide by 6 1/2 ft. high, provided the opening for what would later be expanded into an underground complex of offices and living quarters...
...dirty work," he recalls. Between 1953 and 1969, Fowler witnessed a marvel of engineering, working first for the Bureau of Mines and later for the Army Corps of Engineers. "It was amazing the way they could drive a straight line through solid rock," he says. Inside the mountain the tunnel was gradually expanded into a self-sustaining underground complex...
...SADDENING to witness how neglecting and tunnel-visioned these analysts can be as they try to evaluate the Gorbachev years. They seem to forget that the events that have so drastically changed the face of world politics since 1989 would not have happened in the particular way they did without the president of the Soviet Union and his remarkable approach. To name Gorbachev a "tragic, almost pathetic figure," as one of the so-called experts, Morton Zuckerman of U.S. News and World Report, recently did, is a historical blunder caused by mediocre reasoning...
...depends. Screaming, if you're in the lower tunnel in the bowels of Grand Central station and there's nobody around to hear you, does nothing more than aggravate the offender, and he uses more force. I've had women who have seen someone close enough -- perhaps within earshot -- and a scream and a kick in the groin worked to send the offender packing. I've never had self-defense training, but I've heard from many women that it gives them confidence about confronting the situation. Some have successfully talked people down from rape...
...clean and divide hundreds of birds each day, typically perform the same movement from 60 to 90 times a minute, thousands of times a day. When the human body is pressed to imitate the tireless actions of a machine, it revolts. The result is chronic tendinitis and carpal-tunnel syndrome, a painful condition of the wrists and forearms that can leave a worker virtually crippled even after corrective surgery...