Word: underground
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Most abortions are performed outside the law. It is certain that the UHS rarely hears about illegal abortions involving Radcliffe students. There is a Harvard-Radcliffe underground directory of abortionists' names and contacts to which people turn first. Again there are no statistics, but abortions are not extremely difficult to obtain in the Boston area, where prices range from $250 up to $1000. Trips to Montreal or Puerto Rico, where abortion is legal, are not uncommon. Japan, where abortion is both legal and very cheap, is not unheard-of as a place of last resort. Estimates on how many Cliffies...
Pitts assumed that "the stature and competence of Monro" had attracted the gift to Miles. The gift, he said, was an appropriate memorial to Howe, in view of his interest in Negro education. "Howe might have been descended from New England families who were active in the underground railway in earlier times," he said of Howe's interest in civil rights...
...Jones" does not know what is happening because he sees it as an isolated problem of a few "trouble-makers"; his widest vision may grasp an idea of some sinister underground conspiracy. An uncanny international cooperation has formed at the LSE, with veterans of Alabama, the anti-apartheid movement, Pakistani politics, and Greek student strikes working easily with British students educated by the Aldermaston marches and left university politics. But the "conspiracy" is the result of a universal experience: the established authorities are making terrible mistakes...
...space over railroad tracks. The first, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and designed by a five-man team of New York architects, proposes building over a 37-block length of the New Haven Railroad tracks on upper Park Avenue, from 97th Street, where the tracks emerge from underground, north to the Harlem River...
...nation's complete salvation. When he saw himself growing older and achieving as little in the hierarchy of Communism as the Party was achieving in the hierarchy of the country, he despaired of ending up on the wrong side of the fence. The ugly affairs of the Communist underground--either in fact or in Chambers' romanticized imagination--plus events in Stalin's Russia must have triggered a more sudden and violent change in Chambers than in his less devoted comrades. His total commitment became total disillusionment...