Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born with an urge to protest. At 15, he followed his father into the Socialist Party, and soon he was deep in Leftist ferment. When World War Objector Earl Browder emerged from Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1920, William ZebuIon Foster and "Big Bill" Haywood had splintered away from the Debs Socialists, had formed "Communist" parties. Two years afterward, with Browder close at hand, they fused their factions into the Communist Party of the U. S. A., affiliated with the Third International, plunged into the underground era of Communism. Then to be known as a Red was to be hunted, beaten, jailed...
...which are lost below in dense clouds of mist. Down their in the flat valley, the river could forget this roaring nightmare and become a lazy serpent of varied greens; light greens where the bright sands lay near the surface, shading off perfectly into mysterious black-greens where the deep pools were...
...shrieking-formed a traffic jam for a mile along the River Maas. The middle-to-do on bicycles pedaled vigorously along in their own continuous stream of traffic. The little-to-do on foot crowded the quays, staring into the beam of a great searchlight. Broad Dutch faces beamed, deep Dutch shouts rose louder than the shrieking horns. For slowly, a great new ship, floodlit from stem to stern, passed down the middle of the river outward bound for New York...
...From the Russian revolution: a jerky, 20-year-old shot, shown before in the U. S. in Tsar to Lenin (TIME, March 22, 1937) of the execution of nine men, three at a clip. Standing on the brink of a deep, wide grave, they face the firing squad stolidly. When the guns bark, their caps fly off, they double up with comic strip grotesqueness, topple into the grave...
...pencil-smudged journals of the famous U. S. naturalist, John Muir, a fragmentary, 440-page selection which rightfully belongs with his seven published journals. Readers may deplore the book's jumbled effect, but will agree that it succeeds with rare effect in communicating the freshness of mountains and deep woods...