Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high gravity of the oil (it is almost pure gasoline), and the depth of the oil-saturated strata (about 1,700 ft., the deepest of its kind ever found), caused experts to guess that the pool may contain a minimum of 50 million barrels, a maximum of 600 million barrels. In honor of Old Mike, the area was named Benedum Field...
...deepest interests are afterhours. They center in his home, his wife, and, above all, in his sons, 3½-year-old Jonathan and Stephan, 1½. The three-man romps, in which he hurls the youngsters against the softer pieces of furniture like a couple of shrieking medicine balls, give him the best moments of his day. Sociable, in a non-Hollywood way, he spends two or three evenings a week over a home dinner, whiskey, and talk with one or two of his handful of close friends (closest: Richard Conte). He actively dislikes nightclubs...
Before they sailed, spokesmen for the group issued a statement: "We depart from the U.S. of our own free will, with sentiments of deepest gratitude and admiration. . . . The democratic institutions of America afforded us an opportunity to build life anew...
...condemnation or contempt. No nation had ever come into the world without bloodshed. In every process of hope, ambition, confused value, self-deceit, India is merely the world in small, and one more terrible warning to the conscience of the world. India's gravest error, her deepest sin, is rampant in all the world and never so madly so as in those portions of the world which call themselves "modern": the incapacity of those who desire to lead people, whether for power or in the highest of good will, to know, love, fear, respect, or even to imagine, what...
...Communist guerrillas on their deepest raid into Nationalist territory this year, sweeping 300 miles in three weeks. U.S. headlines said that China's capital itself was threatened last week. Nationalist river craft steamed up the Yangtze to see if Liu Po-cheng would attempt a crossing; night guards carefully checked all vehicles entering Nanking. But the city itself was undisturbed, and the city gates were still open...