Inside, there was a flat-screen TV and a bright, comfortable kitchen, but the swimming pool in the back yard was of the inflatable, aboveground variety; it came with the house, Anna said, but since it will please their grandchildren it remains.
ANDERSON: There's no question that the American action — the coalition action — in Afghanistan achieved one thing: removing Al Qaeda from the almost aboveground role it had, pretty much steering the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
On the other hand, the E. C. A., on theVia Veneto, has started a whacking new propaganda drive probably on three levels-one aboveground; one, it is though in the Demo-Christian shadow; and one, many people here hope, underground, in the real, unfloral propaganda depts.
Rafflesia, in Southeast Asia, parasitizes the roots of certain lianas and produces no aboveground parts until it flowers; its large orange and yellow blooms, nearly one metre in diameter, are the largest flowers of any plant.
Once you build a fixed aboveground barbeque pit, it's not so easy to knock it down again.
It never goes aboveground, he says, making it ideal for a warm night of sleep.
"Studioplex is bringing it aboveground".
After the dadaist horror of this submerged train mall, where only the last rites were lacking, we made it aboveground and happened upon the Kiyomizudera Temple.
The wheel won't fit through the hole, and a worker whangs away at it aboveground, trying to loosen stuck bolts.
