Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the other Houses, Dunster possesses an underground rest and play area, equipped with pool and ping pong tables, a television room, and eight squash courts. For entertainment of another type, the House offers sporadic smokers and popular dances. But its chief gift remains that of a convivial atmosphere...
...driven in a closed car-blindfolded for the last 20 minutes . . ." She had been flown to England and smuggled in and out of about 25 houses in 18 weeks, wrote Reporter Lucas, constantly changing her hair style and clothes. Maura told him that she would stay in "this Protestant underground" until May, when she would become 16 and in British law no longer a minor...
...There is an underground method of dealing with this girl which rivals those operating in occupied countries during the war," said Republican Labor M.P. Harry Diamond, a Catholic, in Northern Ireland's House of Commons. "There have been evasion, lies, attempted blackmail and an obvious conspiracy." While police of the United Kingdom searched for her, a Protestant leader said: "There is no official underground to hide girls like her, but because so many people believe in freedom of worship there are many families who would be willing to hide...
...16th century, the Brethren were the dominant Protestant church in Bohemia. But after the Thirty Years' War broke out, the Bohemian Protestants were routed by the Catholics; on June 21, 1621, no fewer than 15 leaders of the Brethren were beheaded. The group went underground and stayed there for 100 years. Moravians know this as the time of "The Hidden Seed...
...ants do not destroy any specific crop. Their way of life is to tunnel underground, excavating a nest of interlaced chambers and building a solid mound about a foot high. Their food is juices sucked from plant roots and stems, seeds, tender shoots, and any insects or animals that they can kill. They go for fledgling birds, and even kill them in their eggs before they have quite hatched. Most conspicuous damage is done to vegetables...