Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government would implement a national coal policy, states like West Virginia that have huge reserves of high-quality low sulfur coal, most of which is mined underground, might be able to compete with the Arab states. More important, they could provide our nation with clean air, a favorable balance of payments, higher employment and greater economic and energy independence...
Colby's experience has been almost entirely in the covert field from the time he parachuted into France in 1943 to lead an underground operation until he served as head of the CIA'S plans, a job he left to become director in June 1973, just a year before the roof fell in. Since the beginning of 1975, Colby has had to spend most of his working hours coping with the criticisms of the organization. He has testified 36 times this year before a variety of congressional committees,* maintaining his poise admirably and replying frankly to hostile questions...
...people who heard Makarios speak last week were relatives of the 6,500 Greek Cypriots killed or missing during the coup and the subsequent Turkish invasion. They came expecting to hear Makarios denounce the now defunct Greek military junta and its allies in the Cypriot EOKA-B terrorist underground, whose reckless attempt to seize power had led to the island's division. They were not disappointed. "This is an ill-omened day and a mournful anniversary," said Makarios in his nasal twang. "When on the morning of that day the putschists struck and in their paranoiac mania brought down...
Once outspoken Indians glanced nervously over their shoulders to see if anyone was listening before they dared engage in whispered political discussions. Single-page underground newspapers circulated in an attempt to provide information barred by censors from India's once lively established dailies. Some politicians who have not yet been arrested have gone into hiding; others have become temporary political emigres by slipping over the border into Nepal...
...time than to the world of the novel. The morality of our age seems senseless in contrast to the narrator's present: Emily's mother's "don't touch," her anger at the "dirty little girl" seems ridiculous when juxtaposed against a world where four-year-olds live underground, eating rats, and sometimes people. Yet the older world, with its roles and facades, seems idyllic, secure and inviolable...