Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tests in the earth's atmosphere; 2) all tests in the oceans; 3) all nuclear tests in those regions of space where effective controls are currently possible; and 4) all controllable nuclear weapons tests beneath the surface of the earth. To get around disagreements on how to measure underground blasts, the U.S. proposed to check all those above a 4.75 rating- on the standard seismographic "earthquake scale." The U.S. also proposed a program of joint research to improve the detection of small bombs underground, and eventually bring all tests under strict international control...
CONSTRUCTION of the building will be inordinately complex. During it, traffic must flow on the railroad tracks beneath, on the motor ramps that now cut into the present building. Much of the work will have to be done at night, and materials will have to be hauled underground by flatcar, operations coordinated on a split-second schedule with the movement of trains into and out of the terminal. Says Wolfson: "Problems are normal on my job. There will be just a few more here, but it doesn't bother us." Wolfson's philosophical calm conceals a genuine, almost...
...intrepid explorers scramble down volcanic chimneys, bathe in a grotto lined with glittering quartzes, stagger through regions of miasmal fumes and luminous algae, survive an attack by giant lizards, sail on a raft across an underground sea, get wrecked in the whirlpool that spins around the planet's axis, stumble into sunken Atlantis, and finally are sucked into a volcanic vent and blown out the top of Mount Stromboli (altitude: 3,040 ft.) into the Tyrrhenian...
Naturally, their clothes get somewhat rumpled in all the excitement, and after almost a year underground, the supply of bully beef in their rucksacks has run low. But everyone shows a fine, ruddy complexion-zirconburn?-and not once has anybody made an unseemly proposal to the heroine. As a matter of fact, not even the villain is very wicked. The worst thing he does on the whole trip: he eats the duck...
Five Finger Exercise. An underground fire, fed by the mutual antagonisms in a pointedly average family, finally breaks out on the surface and nearly kills a young tutor. A deft effort by British Playwright Peter Shaffer...