Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether the British (with perhaps some help from the U.S.) are actually planning a second front in the Balkans is one of the deepest military secrets. The British will hardly knowingly repeat their bitter experience of 1941, when the diversion of insufficient forces to Greece brought disaster to North Africa. Now British and U.S. forces piling up in Egypt have a better-than-even chance to hold what is left of North Africa, a growing chance to drive Rommel back...
...Deepest of Tsahai's home contentments was the escape from the rigid isolation of the pink-skinned world: from teachers who taught her Christian precepts, but professed no sisterly love; from girls who smiled at her with their thin buttonhole lips, as across a chasm; from visitors whose English, French or German phrases she understood, but whose meanings she could only ponder. Because her skin was brown and because she was royalty, there had never been any expansion in the invisible walls which closed around her in the pink-skinned world...
...deepest fear is that the Russian armies should be destroyed; that they should be encircled, trapped or minced to pieces by superior steel. No wild imagining is needed to assess the results. Hitler could return westward with countless legions, unnumbered machines, could devote all his energies to settling his accounts with this island. He would have riches to gamble and weapons to squander. This conclusion we dare not in our senses contemplate...
...when Smith said, in answer to a question, "The deepest conviction that any Congressman ever has is that the will of the people ought to prevail. And when you think he is selling out other convictions, he is subordinating smaller convictions to the deepest conviction of a democratic representative," from the audience rose a shout of "No," a chorus of boos, and a hearty groan. On the Blue's national network, the groan echoed from Maine to California...
There was another important reason why Parliamentary criticism might be expected to fade. Though a great deal came from the Left, the Left was well aware that much came from the deepest Right. And the Left was inclined to go along with a man whom the Right disliked, so long as no powerful Leftist seemed likely to get the Prime Ministership...