Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time was 1939; he knew that war was approaching and that, since he could not in conscience bear arms, he would surely be arrested if he went home to Germany. Still, he felt he must return. Back in Germany, Bonhoeler took an active part in the anti-Nazi underground. The Gestapo caught up with him on April 5, 1943. He spent two years in prisons and concentration camps before he was hanged, at 39, at Flossenburg in Bavaria, for plotting to kill Hitler...
...parents shoved the book under his nose and bitterly complained that English Teacher Beatrice Levin had assigned it to their 16-year-olds at Edison High School. The parents were not taken with Novelist Salinger's 16-year-old hero, a sensitive boy named Holden Caulfield who goes underground for 48 hours in Manhattan to escape insensitive grownups. The book, said they, had "filth on nearly every page." One four-letter word in particular made it "not fit to read." Their demand: fire the teacher...
Cornell's Hans Bethe. a former presidential adviser on disarmament and longtime crusader for the test-ban agreement, set out to describe the kind of detection network that would adequately police a ban on underground explosions. In describing a system that would require 600 seismograph stations spread across the U.S.S.R. alone, Bethe only convinced his congressional listeners that the feat of detection was just as impossible as Teller said...
Against evident possibilities for Russian evasion of an underground test ban, Nuclear Chemist Harold Urey pointed out that Russia already has an all but infallible detection system in the U.S.: the energetic reporters of a free press. Urey hopefully predicted that there soon may be other means of detection available to those who would enforce a test ban. But last week, as testimony piled up, the argument that the probability of detection would deter the Russians from violating a test-ban treaty seemed increasingly fanciful. And the Joint Committee seemed less likely than ever to look with favor...
...battle. Nearly a hundred died in clashes with the trigger-happy police, and South African jails are filled to the roof with 1,575 political prisoners, including 94 white allies of the blacks. Hundreds more are being arrested daily. Those leaders who escaped the massive roundups have gone underground or fled to the safety of the British protectorates of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland. Leaderless and with their larders emptied by the stay-at-home strikes of the past month, the impoverished blacks ignored the order of the African National Congress to stay off the job one more week, and trooped...