Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Party members will, of course, go underground. They have never been a serious threat at the polls, and their only effective mode of operation has not been as Communists at all, but as parts of other organizations, whose purposes they have sought to control and subvert...
...geologists know little about the underground conditions responsible for Paricutin. It lies in the "Michoacan volcanic province," dotted with old, dead craters. The whole region may be resting on a "batholith," an enormous mass of "magma" or hot, plastic rock. More likely, Paricutin gets its lava from a smaller "local chamber" of molten basalt which gnawed its way toward the surface until it finally broke through. If the underground lava supply is large enough and active enough, Paricutin may grow as tall as 17,876-ft. Popocatepetl, 200 miles to the east...
...Underground newspapers still being distributed by Nazi elements in the Middle East...
...Gale, the newly appointed Military Governor of Tel Aviv, said the main objective of the marital law decree was to "paralyze and eradicate" the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground resistance groups...
Professor Leet, one of the nation's leading seismologists, was among the scientists who took part in the Los Alamos atom bomb test two years ago. As a specialist in the study of vibrations, Leet has recorded the effects of earthquakes and blasts on his underground machines. He is the author of a forthcoming book on "Causes of Catastrophes...