Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north German coast. Between Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven, the water quickly rose to rooftop level. As the dikes of Bremerhaven crumbled, water flooded the city's zoo, drowning all the caged animals. Hamburg lost both its light and power for two days, and in its modern underground garages, scores of automobiles disappeared beneath the oily waves. Driven from their holes by the floods, packs of rats fed on the carcasses of dead animals. Fearing the pollution of the water supply, authorities flew water in by helicopter to combat the threat of typhoid and cholera...
...sword battles, and even the most passionate of declamations have gradually become dry word arias in a static opera without music. Zeffirelli has changed that. His direction is fresh and fluid despite the inherent difficulties in a play that begins in the stars then plods to an absurd conclusion underground...
...Going Underground...
...very much there. In Geneva, mired down by Russian refusal to merge test-ban talks with general disarmament discussions-a reversal of Moscow's previous position-the nuclear test-ban talks were broken off last week after three long and frustrating years. The Russians tested another nuclear device (underground), while the U.S. was still trying to decide whether or when to renew atmospheric testing...
...Radio Red-Baiter Fulton Lewis Jr., who is not a card-carrying member of the A.T.O.E., has nonetheless gone underground with a theater organ in his basement-a modest, three-rank Robert Morton instrument salvaged from a Tampa movie house...