Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognize," said Vasey, a man whom Kenyans listen to, "that what a number of us would regard as the 'wrong type' of African might be elected. But it is better that such opinion should be out in the open where it can be seen, than driven underground where it is whispered and often unheard until fairly well consolidated." The whites, he warned, must recognize that "because an African voices a grievance, he is not necessarily disloyal...
...Last Stand. When military police reached the scene, many of the sadhus had fled, but a sturdy minority, including Pagala Baba, had retired to a maze of underground cells within the tunnel-honeycombed fortress, and had to be flushed out one by one with tear gas. In the courtyard the police found a huge chariot in which the mad monk's disciples were wont to haul him about. Statues of Pagala Baba were displayed in the gardens and orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors...
...trade, are drying up at the source. For every ton of coal Britain now exports, it buys almost a ton of twice-as-expensive dollar coal from West Virginia. The best British coal seams are petering out, and young Britons, like young Americans, are no longer inclined to labor underground when cleaner, pleasanter jobs are plentiful on the surface. The inescapable conclusion is that King Coal in Britain is slowly abdicating. The date of the coal-price rise, wrote the conservative Spectator last week, "may come to be remembered as the day on which coal ceased to be the national...
...overnight what many cities plan to spend decades doing. When the parking shortage in downtown Chicago began to pinch retailers, they persuaded the city to order a $50 million emergency program. Beneath a great tract of Grant Park, facing Michigan Avenue's luxury stores, the city built an underground garage with 2,359 spaces (rate: $2.40 for 24 hours). It cost $8,300,000, but business is 20% better than expected, and the garage turned a $96,291 profit for the city in its first six months. Chicago also completed five other garages downtown, six in the Englewood shopping...
...18th century, helped build the Grand Erie Canal, and on occasion proved altogether willing to relate the bizarre hazards and furies of pre-Civil War life in the very language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio...