Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet, widow of famed Confederate General James Longstreet, cried: "Bury it [the bill] too deep for resurrection. Thus you can announce to all the world and to millions yet unborn that the old Georgia, the great Georgia of Hill and Stephens and Toombs, when Kennesaw Mountain was a peak of fire and Chickamauga a field of blood, still lives to claim an honorable place in the sisterhood of 48, constituting one nation, one people, America indivisible and unconquerable...
...week, Pat Fitzgerald of Coolcrow, County Tipperary, beat 230 other runners to the all-Irish cross-country championship, but his speed (40 min. 31 sec. for six miles) was not the real news. Fitzgerald, like the other contestants from his county, ran the whole race barefoot, through two-foot-deep snow. Said a (doubtless biased) Belfast observer: "Aye, it's not unusual to see runners going barefoot in Tipperary, although the other folks there wear shoes when not in a hurry...
Mark Ethridge of Louisville and representatives from eleven nations arrived in Greece. They were just another U.N. committee charged with compiling a complicated report. Nobody expected to hear from them until the Styx froze over.* But almost before they had time to unzip their briefcases, they were neck-deep in an impassioned Greek controversy, stood accused of meddling in Greece's domestic affairs, and had snatched five Greek Leftists (including a 15-year-old orphan named Odysseus Doukas) away from a firing squad...
...superintendent Howard Lamb and a handful of other employees. They had drilled two holes in the sides of the chute leading to the pulp vat, so that some of the coupons never reached the pulp. Others were recovered from the vat after WPTB inspectors had left. Workmen waded shoulder-deep into the pulpy mass, close to the whirling beater blades, fished beneath the bubbling surface for coupons which were then cleaned and sent on to the black market in Hull, across the river from Ottawa...
Women with deep emotional conflicts, Dr. Friedgood pointed out, often show psychosexual disorders. A fairly common one: false pregnancy among i) unmarried women who feel guilty about illicit interr course, 2) wives who fear pregnancy, 3) older women who want children...