Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver, Don Gallegos watched his wife scrape off fingernail polish with a paring knife, said, "I bet you're afraid to stick me," ended up with a deep gash across his chest...
...Independence in splendid' Christmas trappings, fidgeted last week when the revolving display on the courthouse cupola refused to revolve. Then the lights on the town Christmas trees would not work, and the choir boys, who were to sing carols over the public-address system, turned up some discouragingly deep bassos. But Independence's worst frustration came from the President's time schedule. After 24 hours, most of which he would spend closeted with his family, he would fly back to Washington...
...busy entertaining 19 of the 28-man New York G.O.P. delegation to Congress, and taking an active part in the campaign to make Indiana's Charles Halleck the House Majority Leader. Was he ready to announce his candidacy? "Certainly not." Did that mean "certainly not ready?" Digging deep, Tom dredged up a slightly stale gag: "Certainly not-period...
Since science can now distinguish the incurably sick from the curable, mercy killing is justified-so goes the chatter in cocktail bars. The naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro Hills, deep in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...