Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headline-grabbing but woefully futile anti-Castro exile raids have been discouraged to the point where most of the exiles have given up the game. Obviously, the CIA still sends in agents on information-gathering missions and to explore the possibilities of a genuinely effective underground inside Cuba. When Castro boasts that he has captured and executed CIA men, he is often telling the truth. Other than that, the U.S. is content to watch Cuba with high-flying U-2s and an occasional supersonic treetop dash by Air Force RF-101 or Navy RA-5C reconnaissance jets. Should Castro shoot...
...limited. The earth has exactly as much water now as it ever had: no less, but no more. Unlike any other resource, the 326 million cubic miles of water are not used up. In nature's familiar, never-ending cycle, water falls to earth as precipitation, seeps underground, flows into lakes and streams, and rushes toward the oceans. Sooner or later, it evaporates back into the air or is given up by plants in the process of transpiration. An acre of corn gives off to the air about 4,000 gallons of water each day. In time, the water...
...join Broadway (he took a $10,000 salary cut in return for stock options). His first move was to stop construction of a small new branch, double its size (and cost) and convert it into the national prototype of regional shopping centers with ample parking, underground deliveries, competing stores in the same complex. Unable to invade the rich San Francisco market directly, Carter doubled his sales by merging with Hale Bros later bought up the Dohrmann Hotel Supply chain for its hidden asset: a 24% interest in the highly profitable Emporium Capwell Co., northern California's top retailer...
...during a mass rally in Alexandria in 1954, but despite the execution of six of the brothers and the imprisonment of thousands of others, the organization survived. Establishing headquarters in Geneva, it was soon distributing an anti-Nasser magazine throughout the Arab world, smuggling arms to its underground organization in Egypt, raising money from such sources as the governments of Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia...
...fighting and the use of weapons and explosives, then assigned to cells. One cell consisted of three engineers whose job was to plan the sabotage of power stations. A cell of chemists prepared bombs. An airline pilots' cell took charge of arms smuggling, and coordinated activities between the underground and Geneva...