Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coalition with the Conservatives.) Cynthia Ledsham went to Coventry to record the crisis' effect on a single industrial community. Constance Lailey, who had wired queries to the bureau's stringers in the blacked-out cities throughout Britain, requeried the main ones by telephone. June Rose took a deep breath and vanished into the cold of London's East End to see what the crisis meant to the people living there...
From the Sun's chartered airplane, Berton reported he saw no lush vegetation and no great herds of fat animals, only awesome, rugged country buried under deep snow, "a handful of hot springs" and the frozen Virginia Falls, 316 ft. high. After flying 15 miles through a canyon whose sheer walls rose to 1,500 feet, the plane landed on its skis in the valley itself, a great bowl set amid the mountains. There was no living thing in sight, not even the fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton...
...Mexico's top Art Critic Antonio Castro Leal seemed to corroborate the angry priest when he told Orozco: "Your art is not easy, soothing, or conservative, but deep and violent." From the first, Orozco had dipped his brushes in violence and brutality. His paintings. like those of his leftist colleagues Rivera and Siqueiros, became the flags of Mexico's political revolutionaries. But there was nothing impersonal or party-line about Orozco's bitterness...
...This] is much more than a fantastic possibility." Gas masks? Useless. Deep underground shelters with efficient air filters might save a few people. But when the wind had passed, the survivors would doubtless find that all animals and plants had died with the unsheltered humans...
Biologists believe that scent, in the long, long ago, was the principal attraction between the sexes. Other bonds developed later, and scent dropped into the background.* But deep in the human structure is a residual sensitivity to the same animal perfume that interests the female musk deer. Both men & women once used musk scent straight, but modern perfumers are more subtle: it is now diluted and smothered with flowery fragrances. But its Sunday punch is still there. Musk, or some musklike scent, is the base for most pulse-twitching perfumes, which (as the advertisements hint) "drive men wild...