Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik Syndrome is characterized by whirling satellites before the eyes, by alternating periods of deepest gloom and wildest premonitions of impending doom, and by the steadfast conviction that the U.S., helplessly and hopelessly, is falling behind the U.S.S.R. in military technology. Since last Oct. 4, when Russia's Sputnik I spun into the sky, the syndrome has afflicted many who should know better. Proclaimed Columnist Joseph Alsop three weeks ago: "It is now the Eisenhower Administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an overwhelming superiority of nuclear striking power in the next five years." Wrote retired...
...take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when his wife comes home from work and his son from school, there is a moving confrontation that shows how the faceless horror can beat upon yet not crush out the deepest feelings of its victims. Tibor Dery's Behind the Brick Wall tells a story in which impoverished factory workmen are forced to steal, workers' "trials" force pathetic culprits into suicide, and decent men in positions of power are made literally sick by the actions they must take...
...three, the foreign trade program was in the deepest trouble. Just how deep was indicated the day after the President's speech, when House Speaker Sam Rayburn summoned Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to Capitol Hill. Also present at the closed-door meeting were House Republican Leader Joe Martin and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. Rayburn's grim warning to Weeks: the foreign trade bill faces total defeat in the House unless the Administration backs away from its insistence on a five-year extension and increased presidential tariff-cutting authority...
...deepest Bronx stands a six-story accretion of bile-colored brick, too ugly to be a mental hospital or a tannery. It is the Bronx High School of Science, and it is a nationally famed rookery for genius. The median IQ of its students is about 135, but in some classes the average runs to 145 or more. If training brains is what high schools are for, the Bronx school may be the best in the country; in 1956 and 1957, students at "Science" won a total of eleven National Merit Scholarships, more than any other high school...
Byron Johnson came on in relief only to be greeted by a scorching line drive down the third base line which Bergantino speared. In the fourth inning, Erickson had blasted a home run into the deepest reaches of left field...