Word: subterranean
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...information I had just heard; I saw that I hadn’t been lied to. Sure enough, the Weathermen—who rose from the ashes of the defunct Students for a Democratic Society in 1969, taking their name from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” lyric, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—carried out a casualty-free campaign of pre-announced bombings of dozens of public buildings; the U.S. Capitol truly was among them...
...quibbling already, I'm getting ahead of myself. I acquired my iPhone shortly after 6:00 on launch day at the Apple store in midtown Manhattan, a subterranean emporium located underneath the plaza in front of FAO Schwartz and accessible through a crystal portal leading to a spiral staircase, befitting the fairy-tale mood. The crowd was astounding, hundreds of people (granted, many of them were TV crews) gawking and yelling and cheering the first customers to emerge with their iPhones. In a way it's disturbing to watch America fall in love with a piece of technology again...
...materials on economics and government as well as many historical labor papers, will mostly be placed in the off-campus Harvard Depository.Littauer, which until now held much of Harvard’s social science collection, consists of a sparsely populated reading room and two dark, low-ceilinged levels of subterranean stacks. It boasts a rusty dumbwaiter and an old-fashioned vault originally intended to hold the most valuable parts of the collection.But the library’s primary feature today is row upon row of eerily empty shelves.Littauer holds over 400,000 volumes and pamphlets, according...
...Deputy Fire Chief James F. Burns. Firemen were summoned to the scene after black smoke and flames were seen shooting up from the manholes. Several fire trucks and ambulances arrived, completely blockading the area. Policemen directed traffic and curious bystanders away from the firefighters as they battled the subterranean flames...
...collaboration with cast and crew members from the American Repertory Theatre (ART), The Dresden Dolls and director Marcus Stern have recreated Grass’ subterranean nightspot. “The Onion Cellar” will run through...