Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central Philadelphia this week, workmen were finishing two towering modern office buildings that will substantially complete one of the nation's biggest chunks of center-city reconstruction in 30 years?a $120 million complex of transit and bus terminals, hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, underground concourses, sunken gardens and pedestrian malls called Penn Center. Near by an underground garage was taking shape in a block-square crater, and a stone's throw down Benjamin Franklin Parkway a crane was hoisting marble panels onto the top floors of a new circular apartment building...
...Underground tests, such as the one that the U.S. conducted last week in a salt dome near Baxterville, Miss., are much more expensive and not as convenient to observe. They are also harder to detect and might well be carried out in secret...
...frightened of mixers, tea-dances, Radcliffe jolly-ups. He hesitates to inject himself into the structured and fiercely competitive world of Harvard heterosex. In addition, he yearns for the hard-core communitas of his old school chums. Most often, his longing for pre-college status and situations skulks underground. When his friends tease about how much he talks of "the old days" he is genuinely suprised, or denies the preoccupation altogether...
...Dream of Joseph: When tricks or ploys fail to win recognition, the Jacob complex goes underground. Another breed of undergraduate learns to content himself with imagined glories. The young Joseph, twelfth man in a line of brothers, dreams that the bound sheaves of his brothers stood round and made obeisance to his sheaf in the field...
...basement of an abandoned bakery at 97 Bernauer Strasse, in West Berlin's French sector, they dug a 448-ft. tunnel that emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times, seepage from underground mains almost forced them to abandon the project. But they kept digging. They installed a ventilation system, used walkie-talkies to warn...