Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection with the article concerning deep freezer gifts, etc. [TIME, Sept. 12], I would call to your attention the words of an other public official on the subject of the receipt of gifts. John Quincy Adams, in writing to the U.S. consul in Madeira, after receiving a hogshead of wine, said, in requesting a bill for the wine...
Last year's Student Council spent more money than any other in the College's history. It sliced deep into its reserve fund and left this year's Council dangerously close to being insolvent. When the present group meets all its inherited obligations, it will have only about a thousand dollars; this is one quarter the amount that last year's body was left by its predecessors...
...Washington. He did exceedingly well at one of the key posts of the postwar world. Anglo-U.S. cooperation is the cornerstone of the peace, of the effort to restore and extend prosperity and of the defense of the West against Communism. The roots of this cooperation strike deep into the histories of the two peoples. But friendship between nations, like marriage and moneymaking, requires attention to detail. As one U.S. State Department official expressed it bluntly last week: "International intimacy doesn't come naturally. There's nothing to all this guff about natural cousinly affection...
...smoldering hulk, settled in mud 28 feet below the surface, could be boarded by firemen. The wooden superstructure was gone, steel deck plates were buckled. From twisted davits hung fire-scarred metal lifeboats, looking like flimsy toys that had been smashed by an angry child. In a knee-deep litter of embers and melted glass, the firemen went to work with blowtorches, pike poles and shovels, to get to the charred bodies of those who had been burned or asphyxiated or trampled to death...
...college degree and finally got it at 70; poor Ann Bush who was forever getting a beating from her pupil Tom Anderson; and the hundreds of other teachers who had worked for nothing during the depression. "I thought [of] these things," writes Jesse Stuart, "and I believed deep in my heart that I was a member of the greatest profession of mankind...