Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious: he planned to make a million dollars by the time he was thirty. But once he has said this much, Busch proceeds to embellish rather than to develop his story. And his occasional efforts to probe deep frequently border on the ridiculous. "The urgency of Hadden's impulse toward life," he writes, "started with his original struggle to stay alive in the first place." This "struggle" took place when "little Hadden" was between one and six weeks old, and was brought about by his premature birth. "Ever...
...four years Attorney General Tom Clark had given the party on Harry Truman's birthday. This was the biggest one of all. Court Jester George Allen, deep in the Truman doghouse last summer for his pro-Eisenhower antics, was out again and sniffing the friendly presidential air for the first time in months. He sat pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays...
...geologists, Dr. Frank Reeves and N. B. Sauve of the Vacuum Oil Co., spotted the crater from an airplane. What they saw was a circular depression more than half a mile across and 100 ft. deep, with a splashed-out looking rim. In general appearance it looked much like Arizona's meteor crater (570 ft. deep, four-fifths of a mile in diameter...
...errands and remind him at frequent intervals that he is terrific. In 1941 he married Showgirl Joyce Mathews, a striking blonde who got a Reno divorce six years later. Still friendly, they share custody of an adopted daughter, 3½year-old Victoria, on whom he lavishes deep affection...
...lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess to my mind is the more kissable...