Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was in 1840. Last week, as Britain's Princess Elizabeth and her husband returned from their Scottish honeymoon, members of the House of Commons were once again deep in debate over royal allowances. A special committee recommended raising Elizabeth's income from ?15,000 to ?40,000 a year and granting Philip an annual ?10,000 of his own. Laborite after Laborite decried the extravagance, protesting loudly that the royal couple should share the nation's austerity. But as the wrangling proceeded, Philip and Elizabeth found an unexpected champion in the arch-champion of Laborite austerity...
...organizing Italian Communism's winter offensive, traveling the country to address rallies when he can escape his almost daily duties in Parliament, writing editorials for his press, hammering out the rough issues of party discipline. But Togliatti's eyes were brighter, the lines in his face less deep, the broad grin quicker and more assured than I had ever seen them before...
...Firm Bite. No, he didn't fear that the Communists' strike tactics were costing them votes. While the party's strength held fast in the north, "its greater energy" was making deep inroads into the rural south (and recent small-town elections support this claim). He was especially happy over the party's successful proselytizing of the stubbornly conservative "contadini" (peasants), who have everywhere been the Marxists' highest hurdle: "In population percentage our strongest local federation in Italy is in Siena-in the heart of Tuscany's vineyards and olive groves...
From loudspeakers in Soviet homes, parks, and on street corners the deep, resonant voice of Radio Moscow's ace announcer, Yuri Levitan, boomed bad & good news. Soviet citizens grew taut with strain as they listened to Levitan read a state decree. When he finished they erupted with grief or joy depending on the number of rubles each had hoarded under his mattress. The decree abolished: 1) 90% of all unbanked individual savings; 2) rationing of food and clothing...
Billy the Kid. The other great event of Wallace's life was his term as governor of New Mexico. He reached Santa Fe in September 1878, to find his constituency deep in a bloody feud. The wealthy cattle firm of Lawrence G. Murphy & Co. had been threatened by a likable young Englishman named John Tunstall. So far, 23 men, including Tunstall himself, had been murdered...