Word: deepenings
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...State Service" under socialism. The Misses Edge and Baker, who run the school, are plain and loveless. Since their authority and comfort are all they have, and all that life and their government are apt to allot them, they spend their time trying to expand the first and deepen the second. They tipple sherry and sneak smokes, their word is law, and all seems for the best in the best of possible worlds. Nonetheless, they have their trials. For one thing, two of the girls have slipped out of the dormitory and disappeared into the night. Another bothersome fact...
...abandonment of Formosa to the Chinese Communists. This price was higher than it seemed. Reason: the moral defeat involved would prove to Asiatic and European nations that the U.S. and the U.N. could not make good on their promises of protection against Red aggression. This would deepen the defeatist tendencies of anti-Communists in Asia and Europe. It would "buy time" and save an army, but it would greatly lessen the chances of ever effectively using the time or the army...
...24th Infantry Division and the British brigade then launched a limited attack of their own, to deepen and widen their bridgehead over the Chong-chon. The charging doughfeet made gains up to four miles, and found 600 enemy dead, presumably killed by Allied artillery. East of the marines, the 7th Division's commander, Major General David Barr, said his reconnaissance indicated he could go forward 30 miles, but he was not going to do so until his flanks were secure. On the east coast, the R.O.K. Capitol Division, operating with horse cavalry, scored a long advance north of Kilchu...
...Tolerance is vitally important in our America, not for the purpose of making people indifferent about faith, but just for the opposite reason-namely, to maintain an atmosphere in which every man may be encouraged to have and to hold what faith he has, to increase and deepen that faith, or if he lacks faith, to seek it seriously...
This spiteful fracas would only deepen the skepticism with which most Germans regard parliamentary government. But the incident could not obscure the fact that the Paris and Bonn agreements had added greatly to the prestige of the West German Republic, just three months old. For his critics who said he had bargained away too much, Adenauer had a stinging retort -one which only a German of political courage would dare to make in 1949. Snapped Adenauer: "Who do they think lost the war, anyway...