Word: underground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While the turns in her fate or the constant failures of the underground's operations might lead any reasonable person to suspect betrayal, she just keeps forging rather cheerfully on. She treats the steady anti-Semitic mutterings of her colleagues similarly. Well, she seems to say, anti-Semitism has always been an endemic ugliness - why should these guys, however high their ostensible principles, be any different? She clings to her innocence even after the war, when she is accused of collaboration and is first brutally degraded by the Dutch, then almost murdered by a collaborator who is the last person...
...just a noise like an underground explosion. The wave came almost instantaneously. Everything that was standing is flattened.' DOROTHY PARKINSON, resident of the Solomon Islands, where a tsunami, triggered by an offshore earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, killed over two dozen people and forced thousands to flee their homes
...There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time...
...parkour until the death at his school but is now on the lookout for what he calls "very risky behavior." It's no surprise then that while students at a small number of colleges have registered parkour clubs with their schools, fear of crackdowns has kept the movement largely underground...
...there. Iceland's capital gets 100% of its heat and 40% of its electricity from geothermal power. (The rest comes from hydropower.) The same forces that have scattered no fewer than 130 volcanoes across the tiny country bring molten rock relatively close to the surface everywhere. When this encounters underground water, it generates steam, which is tapped to produce clean, renewable electricity...