Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inseparable Connection. One by one, National Committee members accused of Dixiecrat activities marched before the credentials committee. Some pleaded that it was all a mistake-deep down inside they had been for Truman all along. Others were truculently defiant. After hearing them out, the credentials committee unanimously recommended the purging of five Southerners. The committee briskly voted approval. It was the first such expulsion since...
...more than 24 hours, the hurricane winds flailed nearly a fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a boy who drowned off Miami trying to save his sailboat...
Then, in a lull after three hours of wild shooting, the chief spotted movement in the narrow space between the house and the next-door apartment-Craig was out and trying to get away. The chief opened fire and Craig, huddled in the deep shadows with a pistol in either hand, began shooting back. Two detectives stepped in, Tommy guns hammering, and Craig went down-shooting even as his body twitched under the blows of bullets. The big fight, in which five policemen, one child and one woman bystander had been wounded, was over...
Siam's incredible cheerfulness did not stop at Bangkok. It spread across the whole funnel-shaped country of 18 million people-to the farmers slogging behind lumbering carabao in the knee-deep water of the rice paddies, and to the tappers working their way down long, slanting rows of rubber trees...
...queue, thinks the New Statesman's chronicler, "must answer some deep-seated need of our time...No one can push in ahead by sheer strength and skill and win the prize-a fortune or a dozen boxes of chocolates-which the majority won't get. But equally, no one will be quite left out-all will get their two ounces of jujubes* by mere waiting and shuffling along at intervals...