Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, after his 87th birthday, he began growing steadily weaker. One day last week he fell into a deep coma and his only son was called to his bedside. A few hours later President Harry Truman announced the death of John Joseph ("Black Jack"*) Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World...
...these ruffians. If they should discover an earring or a bracelet hidden in a seam of clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
Here Father Reinhold interpolated: "I am sure American Catholics, with their deep sense of the sacredness of law, will find it hard to stomach the next sentence: 'How could I obstruct their genuine desire for Christ the Lord by mere formal objections from Canon Law? We sang our old appropriate hymns. I consecrated the piece of hard and coarse Russian bread and the wine . . . Over 300 Catholics and 80 Evangelical Christians came to the Sacred Banquet. The speaker of the Lutherans thanked me, his voiced drowned in tears of joy. He was a student for the ministry from Eisenach...
...Stravinsky had never put another eighth note on paper, he would still have been a greater innovator than Jean Sibelius, now 82, and Richard Strauss, 84, both of whom barely got into the century musically. Prokofiev and Shostakovich are both deep in Stravinsky's debt. Only one other living composer seriously challenges him as a contemporary influence: dour, 73-year-old Arnold Schönberg, spiritual leader of the atonalists, whose theoretical contributions are great, though his output is small...
...spied John Mouldy in his cellar Deep down twenty steps of stone...