Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dust Bowl. One November day in 1933 the sun turned pink, then red, then grey. Dust swirled up from the drought-ridden plains, rolled over the town in a black, gritty cloud. That winter and spring there were 90 such daylight blackouts. Dust stood an inch and a half deep on the window sills. Grasshoppers and locusts moved in as cattlemen and farmers moved...
...December 1944, was one of the most vicious atrocities committed by Germans in combat during the war. By the testimony of one survivor (who escaped by feigning death after he was shot in the foot), some 160 U.S. soldiers were lined up in a snow-covered field, eight deep and 20 abreast, and raked by machine-gun fire for three minutes...
...suspect, they ought to press a handy piece of gauze over mouth and nostrils. One eminent physician declared: "Consumption of alcohol is at least as efficient a preventive as any drug." Beneath public health notices declaring: "He who avoids flu performs a public service," France's barflies drank deep and gloriously in the full consciousness of civic virtue...
Willow Runs Slower. At Willow Run this week, four new lines of Kaiser-Frazer cars (a taxi, four-door convertible, "hardtop convertible," and "utility sedan") were rolled out in an atmosphere of deep gloom. Since early fall K-F had had to cut production from 800 cars a day to a current 675. It was seriously thinking about cutting back still more to 400 cars a day. Henry and Joe blamed the cutback on the Government's Regulation W under which car buyers must pay at least one-third down and the rest in no more than 18 months...
...shone on through the first week of reading period, undergraduates began to eye it nervously. Perhaps it was the reflection of a year in which Durocher joined the Giants, Harvard beat Yale, and Harry S. Truman won an election; or worse, it might be the result of some miscalculation deep in a lead-lined atomic pile at Oak Ridge. Whatever it was, it spawned a strange, unreasoning fear--a fear that no bravado, no artificial courage could erase...