Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Republicans on occasion, had fought a measure to ban discrimination in public housing. Erway countered the discrimination charge with the feeble defense that he was on excellent terms with his Negro maid, and that during Civil War days his farm had served as a station on the Underground Railroad...
Dressed in white coveralls, blue neck bands and combat boots, each pistolpacking Air Force officer spends 24 continuous hours in "the hole" every four days, monitoring a control panel that can aim and fire ten Minutemen housed in underground silos various distances away. It is intermittent work that leaves some idle time, and the big majority of the men spend the spare hours as graduate students working toward an M.A. in business administration from Ohio State University, 1,200 miles away...
Future vacations may find Harvard and Radcliffe students being blasted through an underground pneumatic tube between Boston and Washington...
...current publishers realize, Call It Sleep's history is its finest selling point. To those who equate failure with artistic integrity, three decades of neglect suggests more than ordinary merit. And for culture-snob and intellectual alike, the book's underground reputation has immense appeal. A friend recommended the novel to me, but I probably wouldn't have read it if he hadn't added that it first appeared in 1934 and sold only 4,000 copies, that Henry Roth has written almost nothing since then, that he now raises chickens on a farm in Maine. And I've found...
Subterranean routes would require no right-of-way at all. However, with present tunneling techniques, Selfert feels that the cost of building an underground roadbed would be greater than the cost of acquiring the necessary right...