Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, the foods which trundle through the underground passages from the Central Kitchen are improved over last year. Notable is the veal cutlet which no longer consists of foam rubber between veneers of conglomerated bread crumbs...
...Force will slide a 90-ft., 117-ton monster into its perpendicular den and seal it with heavy concrete doors against the megaton shocks of man-made thermonuclear quakes. The monster is the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapon in Air Force history to go underground...
...nationalists the massacres of May 1945 meant one thing: the only way Algeria would ever get self-government was by armed revolt. Avidly they began to read military history, concentrating on guerrilla warfare-memoirs of French resistance officers, Tito's partisans, Irish rebels. Their first attempt at an underground, the Organisation Spéciale, soon had 3,000 recruits, ample stocks of hidden weapons, too ambitious and complex a hierarchy, and a card file of members. Result: when French police once got a lead into the O.S., it swiftly collapsed...
...Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter's Church at Oxford, Miss., who has spoken sturdily for racial tolerance, stand out as exceptions to the rule. Most of the pro-integration work of the Southern clergy of whatever denomination is so quiet as to be almost clandestine...
...Mississippi last week: "There are plenty of us, of all denominations, working quietly and discreetly to promote racial tolerance and ease the way for the integration that eventually has to come. But publicity is the worst thing we could have. Christianity needs its martyrs. But it needs its underground...