Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most memorable features into "To Have and Have Not." Bogart plays the same outwardly embittered and egocentric but inwardly sympathetic hero in both, and both plots concentrate on the efforts of the other characters to enlist his desperately needed "hard resourcefulness" on the side of the anti-Nazi underground. The center of the action in both movies is a saloon that employs a wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi (or Vichy) officer, an admired underground leader and his beautiful wife who need Bogart's help, a vicious cat-and-mouse...
...Buildings), as well as nine standing-committee rooms, plus 19 committee anterooms, 18 small conference rooms, 51 committee staff rooms, 16 subcommittee rooms, a swimming pool, a gymnasium whose walls as well as floor are made of hardwood, tennis courts, a TV studio, and an underground garage with space for 1,600 cars...
...Viet Cong cunning. Government paratroopers discovered one of their adversaries' main camps. Circular in shape, it was crisscrossed with trenches camouflaged by fast-growing yam plants and running for hundreds of yards among concealed barracks roofed with thatch. Below the redoubt were huge, man-made caverns 60 feet underground, honeycombed with tunnels. At one point, eight tunnels converged into a large subterranean room that was complete with tables, chairs and Viet Cong flags...
...these shrines, or Asclepieions, was somewhere near the Step Pyramid. It was especially holy because the body of the healer himself was believed to be buried near by. The pilgrims who came to Saqqara sacrificed ibises, which were sacred to Imhotep. Their carcasses were mummified and tucked away underground so that their souls would journey to the god and ask his healing favor. The shrine was deserted many centuries ago, and desert storms erased all surface traces of it. Not until Emery broke into its catacombs did anyone know what had become of the mum mies of all those ibises...
...Montana has lately faltered because of a high dropout rate, leaving the Institute leary of the whole principle. But Ellsworth and the other Minuteman schools have three contracted years to run, and Hastings and Woodruff feel confident that by then there will be no doubting the value of underground education...