Word: deepest
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...British Royal Navy is proud of its victories, but the British Army pays its deepest respects to forlorn hopes. The Crimean War of 1854 produced two real triumphs of British arms-the routing of the main body of Russian cavalry by 550 Highlanders (immortalized as "the thin red line"), and the brilliant and successful charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava. But these are as nothing in British eyes compared with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, in which some 700 horsemen rode unprotestingly into what every trooper knew was a trap. As Tennyson hymned...
Grace's various problems both interlock and collide: the struggle for the job helps lose her lover; the presence of the lover alienates the boy. The deepest problem of all is that fierce drive inside herself that makes bosses, husbands and lovers shy away, and makes her simultaneously bitter about a "man's world." With a final slightly pat irony, Grace gets the big job only because the man who is given first pick wants too much money...
Thin Ice. Barth's pessimism is enough to cast the optimistic reader into deepest depression. "Everything we see before us today." he writes, "is more or less polluted, diluted and devalued . . . Men were never good, are not good, and never will be good . . . The morality of modern civilized man has turned out to be a terribly thin covering of ice over a sea of primitive barbarity . . . There is no doubt but that in recent years the whole conception of a Christian civilization in the West has been pitilessly exposed as an illusion-not least in the eyes...
...superb Chancellor of the Exchequer at a time when Britain needed one. Last week Butler entered into the "closed season"-the two-week period when the Chancellor traditionally is cut off from the outside world and is left to think, and to give final shape to his budget in deepest secrecy. Every day, like a queen ant fussed over by faithful workers, Rab was closeted in his Treasury office. Evenings he worked until past midnight in his study, hung with Impressionist paintings from his father-in-law's collection...
When Lowell succeeded Eliot in 1909, he immediately began his campaign to democratize the growing undergraduate body. His first step came in 1916 with the addition of four freshman dormitories along the Charles. Lowell always said it had been one of his deepest regrets that as an undergraduate he had not known many in his class who later proved themselves men of worth. His regret spurred on his conviction of the necessity of throwing all members of a class together for at least one year. Through the freshman dorms, classmates were to meet each other briefly as equals before passing...