Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seismologists are still analyzing the wiggly lines with which their instruments recorded the quake, and their work will go on for months or years. But already they know that the epicenter (the place on the earth's surface that is directly above the underground source of trouble) was located somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez in a wild, uninhabited region of glaciers and high, rugged mountains. Caltech's famed Seismologist Charles F. Richter thinks that the focus-the point where the shock originated-was at the comparatively shallow depth of 20 miles below the epicenter...
...West End part, which led to a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organization. His rising fame did not pass unnoticed by old Van den Bogaerde at the Times. He called his son on the phone one morning and tried a jolly joke. He had been walking through an underground passageway, he said, and had seen the name Bogarde on posters all over the walls. "You've brought the family name as low as you can," quipped father...
...next six years, Mansfield worked, often half a mile underground, as a $4.25-a-day mucker and ore sampler in Butte's copper mines. He entered Montana State University in Missoula in 1928, in his senior year married Maureen Hayes, a copper-haired Butte schoolteacher who had tutored him for a time in high school English. They have one child, Anne, a 25-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College who now works for the Alliance for Progress in Washington...
...Fort Worth. A Western Union employee testified that he stamped Ruby's receipt with his electric clocker at 11:17 a.m. Ruby seemed neither upset nor in a hurry, exchanged pleasantries and departed. According to police measurements, Ruby walked 339 ft. 6 in. down the street to the underground garage ramp of police headquarters, and at precisely 11:21 a.m. he stepped out of a crowd of newsmen, shoved a snub-nosed .38-cal. revolver at Oswald and pulled the trigger...
Merchants have been calling and dropping by all week to beg forgiveness ... A Mr. B-- got up and begged in front of last week's mass meeting. He took up nearly an hour with the heart-rending story of his long-time underground friendship for the good colored people of Canton. The committee has decided to keep the squeeze on all of them for a while--to impress them with the latent power of the Negro community ... All of their efforts at retaliation so far have been clumsy and amateurish, but the state legislature has just passed a bill making...