Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody had ideas. Ideas were so thick that Luckman's secretary, Miss Iona Thornton, said, "It was like being knee-deep in alligators. You never knew when one might reach out and bite...
With the help of a girl friend named Sigrid Kraft, who also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
...Carey's project prospered from the start. Baltimore parents were delighted with the Country School's broad lawns, surrounded by deep woods. They even accepted the fresh air fad of 1901, when classrooms were built without any glass in the windows. Boys attended class in woolens and mufflers, keeping their feet on bricks which had been heated in a furnace. The boys fared well (the fresh air, it was claimed, enabled them to do two years' work in one). But constant colds among the faculty finally ended the experiment...
Command Decision (by William Wister Haines; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) had several critics waist-deep in adjectives and recalling What Price Glory? Long hopeful of a good drama about World War II, they were partly confusing the quality of the drink with the intensity of their thirst. But no one could question that in Command Decision World War II had finally inspired an effective play...
Command Decision is focused on the less happy, indeed the downright harrowing, aspects of authority. As Brigadier General K. C. Dennis of the Air Forces (ably played by Paul Kelly) sees it, unless the jet-plane factories deep inside the Reich are swiftly destroyed, jets will soon cover the sky and immeasurably prolong the war. So, day after day, he orders the bombing of those factories, though his losses are appalling and the thought of the losses tears him apart...