Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter came early in the mountains of northern Greece this year. For almost two months the Greek army had been fighting waist-deep in snow along the craggy frontier. Whenever the gunfire died away, the sharp cold silence was shattered by another sound, the voice of the rebel radio. "Greek soldiers, why are you up here in the mountains slowly freezing to death, dying like trapped mountain goats? Whom are you fighting for? Rich people sitting back comfortably in Athens, avoiding their military service and getting richer and richer? What...
Cory Winn's freshman squad will get its first taste of intercollegiate play tomorrow at Amherst, but will not meet Dartmouth because the Indians have wiped out their freshman team. The Yardlings are deep in material, but lack any real standouts...
...entire German Sixth Army, which in the summer months of the same year had pushed its way across the Don and into the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga, was cut off from its Army Group and left to shift for itself 300,000 men deep inside the Russian front, supplied inefficiently by air and gradually being killed among the snow-covered steppes and hills and the shattered remains of the city...
...which I bring upto support a theory of mine that Oscar Hammerstein II ("Allegro's" Creator and Lyricist) has always been bad when he tries to say something deep, and always good when he lets his sense of humor creep in. And in line with this theory, all the scenes that most people appear to like best in "Allegro" are the lighter ones...
Last week in Moscow, Paleontologist I. A. Efremov announced that he had found "millions" of dinosaur skeletons in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It might well prove to be the biggest dinosaur graveyard in the world. The skeletons lie from 49 to 131 feet deep, apparently in the bed of an ancient river...