Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than five hundred book-bargaining students found their way to the subterranean Collating Room of Widener Library yesterday, in response to a sale of duplicate and unneeded volumes from the Library stacks...
...goggle-eyed followers he told still more: about the subterranean Great White Lodge, 75 miles beneath the Forbidden City of Lhasa and reached by a "gravity-neutralizing" elevator, where a twelve-man Supreme Council met in a white-metal hall to plan world strategy. "Archbishop" Doreal assured brotherhood members that he kept in constant touch with the council by sending his soul back to Tibet by "astral projection...
...atom bombs, but added a comforting note: "War with this weapon will not be completely unendurable in a country adequately prepared and strong enough to withstand the first onslaught. The length of the war would certainly be increased by adequate dispersion of great industrial areas and the construction of subterranean factories. . . . We can expect war to continue until . . . the will to resist is finally broken...
...dogged persistence of Stalin's mind, free from the perils of individual inspiration, they sensed a character for whom organization and discipline are indispensable to achievement. In his craftiness, they sensed a personal expression of their organizational need for subterranean conspiracy. In his brutality, they sensed a capacity for the terrorism with which a revolutionary minority must always exert its rule over an overwhelming majority. In his intellectual aridity, they sensed an embodiment of that bleakness inseparable from a philosophy which makes man, even for his ultimate greater glory, the pawn of purely materialist forces...
...World War II's Warsaw and Monte Cassino will be remembered. And yet, as Poland under her conquerors has gone from disaster to disaster, the tradition of struggle by patience and stealth has replaced the tradition of chivalry. Last week a Western diplomat, commenting on the stories of subterranean terror by both left and right in Poland, said: "The Poles fight better underground...