Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he clearly was courting trouble, Glistrup turned his scorn for the tax laws that he used so well into a national crusade. Appearing on a TV talk show, he compared tax cheats with the guerrillas in the Danish underground who blew up Nazi-controlled railway lines during World War II. "Tax dodgers today are comparable to railroad saboteurs; they are doing a dangerous but useful job for the nation." Public response was so enthusiastic that Glistrup founded...
...harsh sentence: NO MORE FUNNY BUSINESS, KIDS. There are only 100 jokes left on the planet Earth, produced and sustained in a Harvard p-3 laboratory with a secret fluid extracted from the funny bone of Mark O'Donnell [before he did that silly piece in New Times]. An underground group of renegade "funny" students--all of whom remember the good old days of Padan Aram, The University Enquirer, and Stephen S.J. Hall--decide they'd like to put on a humorous show in order to raise enough money to go to Bermuda. When, in desperation, they...
Blodgett Pool and the Soldier's Field Track and Tennis Hall lost power last night for about three hours when a dump truck accidentally backed into a light pole and disrupted an underground hightension wire, the attendant of the athletic facility at the time of the black-out said last night...
...running the mine and another one he has. It is just as hard to run a mine as it is to go down and dig coal. I'm glad my father is the owner though. I wouldn't want him to get killed or hurt bad down there, way underground. Daddy has given us a good life. We have a lot of fun coming up, he says, in the next few years. We're going on some trips. Daddy deserves his vacations. He says he's really happy because he can keep us happy, and he does. If we want...
...months have revealed just how widespread opposition has become to Somoza, whose family exercises virtually absolute control over the political, military and commercial affairs of the country. Outspoken resistance to the regime had traditionally been confined to members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), a 16-year-old underground socialist group named for General Augusto C. Sandino, a Nicaraguan Military commander who fought for the ouster of U.S. Marines from the country in the 1930s. But in recent weeks and months, scores of businessmen, "legal" political groups, journalists, and of course the overwhelming mass of poor Nicaraguans have joined...