Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after day, he deals calmly and skillfully with Florida politics, which carries into the atomic age the miasmic mist and the alligator snap of the deepest Florida swamp. The job keeps him busy. The other day, his 13-year-old daughter Mary Call asked him, "What's a lieutenant governor?" (the office does not exist...
...presidential task of personally receiving new foreign emissaries, his staff announced routine receipt of accreditations for the new Ambassadors of Lebanon, Laos, Luxembourg, Iceland and Pakistan. ¶Through Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. he conveyed a plea for restraint in the Middle East (see below). ¶With "deepest regret," he accepted the resignation of Bernard M. Shanley, White House appointment secretary and former presidential counsel, who left to "resolve some of my pressing personal problems...
...prefer the view that all minor duties must be matched against the overreaching duty to the genuineness with which we live our lives, and to our deepest emotions. I think the reason why I feel so disappointed about Margaret's decision is that it seems a betrayal of the very sources of life, because of a musty conception of what is owed to ancient forms that have outlived their usefulness...
...into "a union which vast numbers of her sister's people, all sincerely anxious for her lifelong happiness, cannot in all conscience regard as a marriage." The peoples of her sister's Commonwealth, it went on, "would see her step down from her high place with the deepest regret, for she has adorned it, and is everywhere honored and loved." But there was no question in the Times's mind that marriage to Townsend would require the Princess to "step down...
Oilman McCollum had reason to be staggered last week. Eighteen miles off Jefferson Parish, La., his company brought in the deepest well (15,058 ft.) in the deepest water (97 ft.) ever drilled in offshore exploration...