Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Granary, named for the town granary which stood where Park Street Church is now located, had its share of troubles. In the old days, underground springs used to fill up the graves with water from time to time, causing the Town Fathers endless drainage worries. And then there were Captain Adino Paddock's elms. Captain Paddock decided Old Granary needed to be dressed up, so he imported 16 elm trees from England and planted them along the cemetery. They were his pride and joy, but unfortunately the youths of Boston town could not resist swinging on the limbs. The Captain...
...addition to the suspensions, the students will be required to pay costs of ripping up underground detonating wires buried early last Wednesday morning, Everett M. Baker, MIT Dean of students, announced yesterday...
Only 75,000 books must be moved from Widener to Lamont. Should bad weather prevail at moving time, the underground tunnel which connects the two libraries will be used. At Princeton, the entire transportation job had to be done above ground, with weather a hazard during the operation...
...refugees, was trying to shelter them in barracks, schools and tents. The border town of Bint-Jebeil (see cut), with a population of 6,000, had put up 5,000 guests. In Transjordan's capital city of Amman, more than a thousand were holed up in the dank underground galleries of the ancient Roman amphitheater. Their ration was a pound of dark bread...
...hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage. Over the years in which he fired Peru's depressed people with a hope for a better life, he had been in & out of prison, had known exile, lived underground. His party had often been guilty of violence...