Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some nights Beck dresses in slacks and pocket-monogrammed smoking jacket to play host in the underground layout that is the real showplace of his home. Some of the Compound's boys are always on hand to run the 35-mm. CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters...
Free to Choose? On June 15, 1955 Judge Reynolds gave the Ellises 48 hours to surrender Hildy. Frances Ellis took Hildy and went to Tuckahoe, N.Y., the first of several stops on an underground railroad manned by friends and relatives. Her husband followed. Together they moved to Levittown, Pa. (then left after Hildy was mentioned in a newspaper as a birthday-party guest), White Plains, N.Y., New York City, Thompsonville, Conn., Scarsdale, N.Y., and Portland...
Councilor Al Vellucci resumed his crusade against Harvard yesterday as he threatened to filibuster the University's request for an underground steampipe across Prescott...
Cyprus: Even in this most rebellious of British possessions there was a glimmer of progress. Last week EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground, offered to call off its two-year-old campaign of terrorism if Britain would free Archbishop Makarios, exiled spiritual and political leader of Cyprus' Greek population. In London Prime Minister Macmillan hastily called a special Cabinet meeting to consider this face-saving way out. Britain until now has insisted that Makarios himself must formally denounce EOKA terrorism...
...teaching as well, and he steered a middle course between mystical rapture and the traditional emphasis on study. He gave his followers and their descendants a highly organized religious school system, a missionary tradition and a lively concern for health and material welfare that kept the movement alive (often underground) through persecution, war and revolution...