Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beneath the partisanship, there was much deep concern. Hard and complex problems had to be faced. Congressmen buckled down to work...
...grandfather's fortune has already been dispersed; his father's is locked up in Canada, where Rawhide Jim retired in an anti-New Deal huff in 1939. With only $53,570 a year in pay and allowances to run the London Embassy, Lew is forced to dig deep into his own savings...
Next night, at a less active palace reception, Prime Minister Clement Attlee said cheerily to some Tory friends: "We should really have more of these parties." This remark was widely repeated. "The bahstud," muttered one of those who knew that Attlee's government had carried its austerity drive deep into the wedding festivities, by shortening the length and speeding up the pace of the procession, by asking workers to stay at their jobs, and even, at first, by refusing to put the Household Cavalry in full dress. When the Cavalry turned up in full dress in Sir Alexander Korda...
...story: he had taken to heavy drinking, had violent dreams of military battles (with sexual symbolism), at length confided that he was impotent. From the dreams and other symptoms, the doctor made a rapid diagnosis (which later proved correct): the patient's real trouble was a deep-seated fear that he was a homosexual...
...start with, says Flexner, "he read the few books about art available to him, with all the concentration of a virgin deep in tales of love." The books were not much help, so Copley went counter to the conventions and painted as photographically as he knew how. Gradually he evolved a useful and straightforward theory of his own; he concluded that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion to the time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque...