Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its original publication in 1900, few researchers have challenged the au thority of Baker's Dictionary.* But Musicologist Slonimsky, a man with an insatiable appetite for facts, has long suspected that the book was studded with subterranean errors. To produce his new edition, he spent four tireless years writing to authorities the world over to verify birth and death dates and fill in biographical lacunae. The Vienna Bureau of Meteorology, for instance, helped him verify the fact that Beethoven died during a violent storm: the weather report of March 26, 1827 noted that a thunderstorm with heavy winds...
...Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Accuracy Inc., said the reports, was letting subcontracts for the MOLE's propulsion system ("an atomic engine energized by the molecular disintegration of whatever...
...rich and carries the haunting, dusky legato that still echoes the New Orleans of 40 years ago. It growls through the classic wails of Special Delivery Blues, Mighty Rumbling Blues, St. Louis Blues. In the upper register it is nothing more than a hoarse squeak; but down in the subterranean passages it flows, moans, glides and sighs with a power that has been achieved before-by Bessie Smith, Lizzy Miles-but that is still as rare as a 20-carat diamond...
...Greco, rode into battle for his protégée. Through a London gossip column, U.S. Moviemaker Carl Foreman irritably reported that Zanuck was over-pushing Greco for a fat part in Foreman's new picture, Guns of Navarone. Zanuck, who elevated his black-haired Lorelei from subterranean boites to stardom in The Roots of Heaven, angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have no control of any sort over her career." Greco may have given Zanuck that impression by accepting the lead in a British-German film against his advice. When he descended on her German location...
...such, Titan presages the day when all long-range missiles will lurk beneath the earth, invisible and well-nigh invulnerable to enemy attack. The sunken silo at Vandenberg is only one part of a subterranean complex under construction as Titan's first "hard base." Adjoining the missile tank are other sunken cylinders (see diagram), housing air-conditioning and hydraulic equipment, a power station, liquid oxygen and fuel tanks, and a command control center for the launch crew. Tunnels connect the widely dispersed elements, but after the alert, only the control center will be occupied. Remotely controlled, the monster, fueled...