Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early 1945, Major Wyatt ("Rat-top") Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...
...that he could leave policymaking more or less in George Marshall's hands. But Harry Truman's horizon was growing. A few months ago, at a private dinner, General Marshall rose in his place, looked straight at Harry Truman, and waited for silence. Then he said with deep seriousness: "The full stature of this man will only be proven by history, but I want to say here and now that there has never been a decision made under this man's Administration, affecting policies beyond our shores, that has not been in the best interest of this...
Once an editor with the quaint name of James King of William left his office at the Bulletin during a feud with Editor James P. Casey of the Sunday Times. As King reached a corner, deep in thought, Casey confronted him with the usual challenge: "Draw and defend yourself!" Before he could, Casey shot him. In the confusion that followed, someone stuffed a dirty sponge into King's wound and it became infected. Casey was hanged by the vigilantes-and posthumously cleared by a court. Too late to help him, the Sacramento State Journal righted the miscarriage of justice...
...primary, and its spiritual life secondary, derivative." An example (not Stalin's): in the U.S. frontier days, a man's life depended on his horse. Therefore, to steal a horse was a capital crime; tree gallows were handy for horse thieves. The material conditions created a deep feeling...
Come All Ye Faithful. Though fewer pictures are in production, some things are just like the good old lavish days. At Paramount, Cecil B. DeMille is deep in his $3,000,000 Technicolored Samson and Delilah. At MGM, the huge set with swimming pool is kept at a tropically humid temperature for the swimming sequences of the new Technicolored Esther Williams picture (with dance numbers by Busby Berkeley...