Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squat Down Tactic. The squatters' supporters suddenly staged a squat down, sitting nine deep on the main thoroughfare in front of the apartments, blocking traffic. Some sat under the wheels of a large red London bus, waving their fists up at the driver. Six mounted policemen came up the road. "Fascists, fascists, fascists," the squatters yelled. The horses, six abreast, ploughed through the crowd up to the squat downs. Defeated, inflamed and humiliated, they scrambled backwards. One or two aimed blows at the horses' heads. Some tried pushing cigarets into horseflesh. For a moment there was a whiff...
...late had been a target for some of the U.S. State Department's glassiest stares, announced before leaving Nicaragua that he would not be a candidate in the February elections. He bestowed his official favor on Dr. Leonardi Argüello, a 71-year-old druggist with a deep-dyed goatee. The other candidate. Dr. Enoc Aguado, a prepossessing lawyer with few relatives, was named by the opposition in Somoza's absence. An American in Nicaragua described him as "the kind of man who. if he were a candidate for President of the U.S.. would...
Meanwhile, Canada's pulse of production grew weaker. Many of the nation's nail factories and foundries had closed. Shipyards, locomotive works, railroad-car shops were digging deep into their inventories. The manufacture of pipes, sinks, wires, tubs, farm implements was being choked off. Plumbing and housing, both critical bottlenecks, were tighter than ever. Auto production dropped to 5,500 so far this month (v. 20,000 in May). Now Ford and General Motors production lines were crawling. (Chrysler's was shut down because of a strike...
Betty (The Egg and I) MacDonald, whose airy literary omelet is the nation's favorite dish, got a deep bow from her adopted state of Washington. The governor, the mayor and the president of the state Farmers' Association were among the benders-from-the-waist at eating and oratorical festivities in Seattle. Authoress MacDonald watched what she ate; after five years of staggering headaches she had discovered the trouble: she was allergic to eggs...
...large, the men & women who anxiously watched their mounting hotel bills last week had more old-fashioned equipment to take with them: deep faith, high hope and abounding love, to share with their fellow...