Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, who holds the party portfolio for war, is a more traditional type of Communist, a sullen man with deep sunken eyes and a tight, twisted mouth. He commanded Italy's Communist Partisans during World War II. Allied intelligence as well as Italian officials estimate his potential underground army (armed with weapons seized from the Germans) to be 150,000 strong, which is as large as the army allowed the Italian state under the peace treaty...
Neither the church, nor democracy, nor capitalism, nor any other anti-Communist force, has yet allayed such deep and simple resentments...
...reports filtering out from the Midlands, this year's Missouri track machine is fatter than a corn-fed hog. In the Drake Relays, their hurdlers ran 2-3-4 behind national champion Harrison Dillard, averaging 14.5 in the highs, 23 at in the lows. They are two and three deep in most of the other events, and as Coach Mikkola commented, "They're not coming east just for the train ride...
...people think of college when they think of the G.I. Bill, but thousands of the veterans were doing their "studying" on the job in factories, and thousands more had gone back to high school. There was still another vast group of G.I.s who had found themselves adrift in the deep-too old to go back to high school, anxious for college training but not sufficiently schooled...
...that when Kafka read to friends the opening chapters of The Trial (the story of a man crucified by inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living -telephones, railroad...