Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pour $650,000 down two holes in the ground. The holes: Crystal Cave and Great Onyx Cave, small caverns adjoining Kentucky's huge (51,000 acres, 150 miles of passageways) Mammoth Cave National Park. Ever since 1941, when the U.S. received Mammoth Cave's stalactite-studded underground chambers as a gift from Kentucky, the National Park Service has been thirsting to take over Onyx and Crystal to make up a more attractive tourist package. Last year the Park Service dickered with private owners, agreed to pay $365,000 for low-vaulted Onyx, $285,000 more for Crystal...
...years Londoners allowed themselves to be herded in and out of crowded Underground trains at the bellowed command of "Move along there, PLEASE!'' With the same unquestioning obedience, they marched off trains that stopped short of their scheduled destinations when ordered to and waited patiently on platforms for the next train...
...breaking point came early this month. An anonymous middle-aged man raised the standard of revolt, refused to budge when told to get off an Underground train that had come to a dead stop. He shouted: "It says on the front of the train that it is going to Dagenham East!" And, glaring around at his sheeplike fellow passengers, he added: "That is where we are all going, aren...
Complaint. Though embarrassed because a fuss was being made, and because they were being addressed by a total stranger, a few murmured shy agreement. A reckless one or two applauded these strong words, never before uttered aloud on the Underground. Passengers who had docilely left the train discovered what was going on and re-entered like lions. The helpless guard fetched the station master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments...
...victory raised the spirits of Underground travelers. Beneath the neat mufflers, hearts pounded with the excitement of successful defiance of authority. Few days later, 400 passengers refused to leave a train at Aldgate station when ordered to and shouted down a London Transport inspector who tried to explain that the train's failure to move was due to an equipment failure. "I couldn't get a hearing," he said, appalled. "I was one man against...