Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt's 1902 Reclamation Act brought the water; since then, the U.S. Reclamation Bureau has built a $25 million complex of dams and canals (repayable from water and power revenue) to irrigate a million acres. Another homesteading project developed when, in 1947, a well digger struck a great underground river...
Last week, safe in Athens, Thomas heard news from the underground of what had happened to his mother, his sister and the rest of his family. Those who lived through the ambush had been executed...
...eight months, Mendès worked in the underground, adopting a pipe and a mustache as a disguise, then made his way to London to join De Gaulle's Free French. He immediately applied to fly again, was trained as a navigator in the Free French bomber group. "He turned all colors before going on missions, but he always went and he volunteered when he could," says a friend. Mendès fretted about bombing France, finally concluded that if he did not do it, others would, and perhaps not aim so carefully...
...director of a children's home in Templin. Brandenburg. His church sent him to a parish in East Berlin. Victims of the Nazis soon learned that Pastor Grüber would help them, and many of them fled to his church for refuge. He set up an underground organization to hide them in apartments, penthouses and garden sheds, to smuggle them abroad...
...Other Colonel. In Guatemala City, that day, another colonel strode tight-lipped along the underground tunnel that leads from the executive mansion via an elevator to the presidential office on the second floor of the city's avocado-green National Palace. President Jacobo Arbenz, the stubborn, enigmatic career soldier who had started the trouble in the first place by flinging wide the palace doors and welcoming Communists into his government, had plenty to think about. But he may have taken a moment to recall that Castillo Armas had once been a school mate, a fellow graduate of the country...