Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. In gratitude for gifts made by John D. Rockefeller Sr., the founders a few years later renamed the school Spelman Seminary in honor of John D.'s wife's parents, Harvey and Lucy Spelman, who maintained a station on the Underground Railroad...
...critics charge that his technique was made in Moscow; he first served the cause of the late Ernst Thalmann, Germany's famous Red boss, in 1927. After years of underground work for the Comintern, he announced his disillusionment with Communism in 1942, decided to try for a Socialist seat in West Germany's first Bundestag in 1949. The district Wehner fought, was Hamburg-Harburg, a tough workers' area where the Communists were strong; he beat the Reds hands down, became the tough, unyielding voice of the Socialists' left wing in Parliament...
...party was outlawed, and APRA responded by massacring 26 soldiers in Haya's home town of Trujillo. Coldly and efficiently, the army then executed thousands of Apristas before the ruins of the nearby Inca city of Chan Chan. Driven underground, Haya continued to build his party cells and by 1945 was too powerful either to destroy or ignore. In elections that year, APRA made a deal to help elect a non-Aprista as President, and in return was given three Cabinet posts. Within three years, an APRA-hating general named Manuel Odria seized power and drove APRA underground once...
...underground blast sets up only compression or "P" waves, with very little of the shear and surface ("S") waves that normally accompany a natural underground disturbance. As a result, the seismographs detect only what Leet terms "the lonesome P." an energetic compression wave which lacks the shear and surface waves that usualy follow...
...believe...that even given the impossibility of such [underground] detection, the government has not shown cause why we could not sign a treaty banning all tests universally recognized to be detectable by existing ("national") systems--that is, atmospheric tests and underground tests above a certain yield...