Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek Cypriots and temporal leader of the enosis movement. Makarios ordered a "systematic campaign of passive resistance aimed at achieving national freedom." Besides the grave, soft-spoken archbishop and his church are two other groups more openly committed to violence in support of enosis - an underground terrorist gang called E.O.K.A. and the Cyprus Communist Party, whose 18,000-member Pancypriot Labor Federation has a hammer lock on the island's labor force, and whose membership includes the mayors of the second, third and fourth largest towns on the island. Communists obviously espouse the cause for troublemaking reasons alone...
...crimes system was made to seem particularly unjust in German eyes last week by the climax of the case of notorious Nazi War Propagandist Werner Naumann. Onetime righthand man to Goebbels, Naumann went underground in 1945 and stayed there through the bitter de-Nazification period, emerging only when new laws enabled him to escape being labeled a major offender. An unrepenting Hitlerite, he was soon active in neo-Nazi circles. Arrested by the British in 1953 for "endangering the occupation," he was deprived of the right to make public speeches, write for the press, broadcast or hold public office...
Against the all-too-real chance of revolution, Perón also had a bomb shelter and Hitler-style funk hole. Through a secret panel in the ground-floor pressroom of his downtown publishing house, a passage led to an underground vault lined with rosewood. A bedroom there had silk pajamas, an emergency supply of oxygen, and a wall safe big enough to walk into. Oddly, when investigators did enter the safe, they easily tapped out the plaster wall at the back and found a long underground escape passage leading to another office building next door...
...Haven city fathers last year also contemplated going underground in order to cope with Yale. A parking garage was contemplated under the New Haven Green, but was abandoned when it was discovered that the Green is an old burying ground and that the city didn't own the Green anyway...
...people would object to a way of life so free of security worries is beyond young Claim Adjuster Tom Wills, who is sent out from the Home Office to investigate some underground rumblings in The Principality of Naples (The Company finds the old city-state system the most efficient form of organization). But before Tom's mission and Preferred Risk come to a radioactive-dusted, gloomily hopeful end, his attitude toward The Company has undergone an earth-rattling change. He is shocked to learn, for example, that some of the people down in the vaults were not sick...