Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Hall as the Red Cross, Salvation Army, doctors, nurses, Texas Rangers with pearl-handled revolvers, planeloads of plasma and mobile kitchens began to arrive. The windowless high school gymnasium was swept clean-it would do for a morgue while the embalmers worked for hours, foot-deep in blood in the McGar garage. Now & again, they turned their backs on the corpses and slugged down hot coffee...
...many a European mind the yearning was there, deep and ancient. If the partitions of Europe were dissolved, if a union of nations were achieved-might there not be more peace and plenty than the living could remember? Especially after the wars, when weakened nations struggled to rebuild, the idea grew...
Betty Crump, granddaughter of Tennessee's Boss Ed Crump, was named Queen of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. The Memphis Commercial Appeal was ecstatic for two columns. Sample: "Her beauty is reflective of the Deep South . . . freshness and spontaneity, naturalness and lingering charm...
...established batting stars ranged from medium hot to ice cold. Temperamental Ted Williams, helping the Red Sox off to another flying start, had trained himself to hit to left field against the opposition's Williams-shift to deep right. The Cardinals' great clutch hitter, Stan Musial, was having early-season trouble connecting with curves...
...Bauhaus school at Dessau. Here was a driving educational experiment founded on the iconoclastic thesis that an architect "is not an artist but a coordinator who must make all of his decisions from the point of view of the improved community." Beauty in a building is not skin- deep, held Gropius, but an integral part of the complete unity; more important, by "building" he did not mean an isolated structure but the street, town, region, nation...