Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these bombs. They were heavily used on North Vietnamese cities during the heavy bombing of 1972 and early 1973. One jet sortie could release four canisters, each containing 247 Rockeyes, thereby killing and maiming people in an area of 30,000 square yards. Each Rockeye can imbed itself partly underground, so that its explosions injure civilians sheltered below ground. Each missile hurls out high-speed molten steel splinters. These, mixed with rock and dirt from the explosion, are blasted into the bodies of the victims, causing massive internal infections and injuries. Dangerous surgery is required to remove the shrapnel...
...safe lives of the enrolled, was an Ann Arbor of precarious living--of streetpeople, young runaways and the dissolute, and of the more hardened and streetwise. It is here that Kimberly Rath had moved, not to an office job and a life with structure, but to this itinerant underground. And here, with time to kill, she began to hang out in Harley's head shop off South Main...
...cited a case in Oklahoma where the head of an underground newspaper is serving a 20-year term for the possession of marijuana as an example of selective prosecution...
David Bromberg. Bromberg is steadily growing from underground sensation to popular legend, spreading his humor, distinctive vocal style, and impeccable guitar wizardry from coast to coast. Bromberg used to play back-up for Jerry Jeff Walker and just about outdoes his former boss on Walker's biggest song, "Mr. Bojangles." Bromberg's own songs are marked by a winning, talking blues kind of humor. On guitar, he does everything from blues and ballads to Irish fiddle tunes. Bromberg's club concerts are reputedly not to be missed. This weekend, Cambridge gets its chance not to miss him. Thursday-Saturday, February...
...Such understated treatment, and the assumption that the Pusey Library's rooftop will have the same character as the ground plane of the old Yard, is a compromise solution which, thus far, is unconvincing. Here is a new environmental element which deserves more innovative treatment. Having opted for an underground building, the designers might have created a student plaza on its roof. Such a move--admittedly a bold one--could greatly enhance the functional aspects of Harvard's outdoor areas...