Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, at last, were Madrid's gourmets driven underground by Madrid's bird lovers. For generations Madrileños have been eating fried sparrows. There was a time when open-air stands on every street corner in the city sold the tender delicacies like hot franks at Coney Island. Then the bird lovers of Madrid's S.P.C.A. stepped in, flooding the city with leaflets quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who liked his birds on the wing and not the skillet. The fried birds were driven off the street corners and into the taverns...
More Democracy. No one save Tito was more popular in Yugoslavia than Vice President Djilas (pronounced jee-las). In actual rank he stood No. 3, if not No. 2, behind the dictator. A bright, tough product of the classic Yugoslav Red school (law studies, school riots, strikes, underground, jail, partisan warfare), he fought bravely with Tito in World War II. His father, two brothers and two sisters were killed by Axis troops. Only last month he was elected President of the Parliament. He was one of the few authorized to speak out on matters of party policy and dialectic...
Most geophysical methods of oil-prospecting do not show the oil itself. All they show are underground structures that may or may not contain oil. Often the wells drilled into them reach nothing of value...
Author Rennie gets her Arizona landscape down effectively with a commendable minimum of adjectives; even that tired old setting for fiction, the boom town, is done with simple freshness. The Blue Chip ends neither happily nor unhappily, but inevitably. When a financial depression and uncontrollable underground water combine to ruin the mine, Jim Packer has to take a job in another town. But with the family packed and waiting to go, he saddles a horse and packs another for a trip into the hills to follow a hunch about an old, deserted gold mine. His parting words: "Goodbye, boys. Take...
...empty shelves in Lamont will never be filled if future librarians continue to follow the plans of present Librarian Philip J. McNiff. As the demand for certain titles drops off, extra copies of the books are shunted off to the Widener stacks through underground tunnels, and replaced by other titles for which there is an increasing need. This keeps the library--which, as McNiff points out, was designed for reading rather than research--down to what he considers "a workable size...