Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Were deceptively quiet, and prepared to go underground...
Cells & Pipelines. With the help of these adherents and with reviving elements of the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers, A.D. set up an underground. It now has cells throughout the country and free-flowing pipelines into the army as well as into the government. Even the junta's most secret acts are reported in one of the underground's ten "newspapers." Resistencia is the largest. Though possession of a copy is cause for immediate arrest, Resistencia's hand-to-hand circulation has doubled to 8,000 in two months...
...leading political prisoner has been scholarly Valmore Rodriguez, president of the Senate during the Gallegos regime. The junta admits that some 200 such prisoners (the underground says 2,000) are still in jail. It does not know what to do with them. Moaned Llovera Páez: "If we exile them, they discredit us abroad. If we free them in the country, they lead the opposition against us. If we keep them in jail everybody criticizes...
...Disguises. Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised...
Most prominent of the three was fiery chauvinist Subhas Chandra Bose. He came out of South Calcutta's anti-British underground to go to the presidency of the Indian National Congress in 1938; then he broke with Gandhi, joined the Japanese to fight the British, met death in a Japanese plane...