Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temperatures up to 500°. In the search for more oil, the new muds will make it possible to drill 10,000 ft. deeper: e.g., South Texas, now limited to 15,000 ft., could go to 25,000 ft.; South Louisiana, with the world's deepest oil well (22,000 ft.), could now exceed...
...Hong Kong, and from then on nothing has been quite the same." Settling in Seattle, Fuller earned a Ph.D. in geology, a field in which he has won professional recognition, and revitalized Seattle's Northwest Glass Co. (he is now chairman of the board). But art remained his deepest interest, and trips to South America, Europe, and the Middle East broadened his knowledge in the field...
...time of the Roman Empire. In those days, the gladiators of Trastevere put on the best and bloodiest shows of all, just as today Trastevere's tough soccer players are the best in all Italy. Many another superlative can be applied to Trastevere; its poverty is the deepest, its streets and alleyways the most crowded, its feasting the lustiest in all of Rome. It was in Trastevere that Raphael himself found the baker's full-bosomed daughter whose sensuous charms he bequeathed to the world in the painting La Fornarina...
This is almost a great movie; Peck's portrayal of Ahab is virtually all that's wrong with it. The flaw is a considerable one, however, since an impassive, insipid Ahab robs Melville's story of its hottest fire and its deepest meaning. Peck is just utterly miscast. For one thing, he is too young, giving no impression whatever of having seen "forty years and one thousand lowerings" on whaling ships. His bland face has nothing of the torn, tortured, gnawed-at, fiery look that Ahab should have. Rather, as he paces the Pequod's deck, his long strides, suspenders...
...still one of the best sea tales ever written. Huston's movie may fail to capture the story's deepest meaning, but it does an admirable job of recreating Moby Dick both as a thrilling adventure story and as a portrayal of the whaling industry...