Word: belowground
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drenched with sweat one day in the Mueller lunchroom, where he made himself a sandwich of white bread and vacuum-packed ham he'd brought from home. On the job since he got out of high school 15 years ago, Watson connects the aboveground portion of hydrants to the belowground portion, pushing iron logs around with the help of an overhead crane...
...Miho Museum I.M. Pei is best known for resounding Modernist statements like the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. For this project in the hills of a nature preserve near Kyoto, Japan, he chose literal understatement--80% of the main building is belowground. But first he leads visitors along a wooded pathway, through a tunnel and over a cable suspension bridge, an enchanted path to buried art treasures...
...their fearsomeness volcanic mountains are relatively simple geologic structures--little more than lesions in the earthly dermis that suggest a fever condition far below. Volcanologically active areas generally lie atop clashing tectonic plates, where fractures five or six miles belowground create chambers into which magma rises and pools. The faster the plates collide, the more volcanic chambers are formed, which is why so many eruptions take place in the geologically active area of the Pacific known as the Ring of Fire...