Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Students at Ava, Ill.'s Trico Consolidated High School were driving teachers wild by doing "red outs." They knelt, took a deep breath, put one thumb in their mouths, and then blew (without actually exhaling) until they fainted...
...Georgia's Toombs County, deep in the dark land of white supremacy, Robert Mallard was known to many white folks as a "biggety nigger." At 37, he was a traveling salesman, strong, brash and prosperous. His voluminous sales of caskets, embalming fluid, and clothing irked his white competitors. He owned a 36-acre farm, drove a flashy 1948 Frazer sedan. He made frequent trips North and was fond of calling himself "Mister Robert Mallard...
...hull was found. It was lying, sanded in, among huge boulders some four miles off shore and 145 feet down. Her superstructure swept away, she had gone down like a sounding lead in deep water...
When shooting broke out the night of his arrest, Chiang leaped from a rear window in his underwear. He scaled a ten-foot wall, stumbled into a deep moat and wrenched his back but climbed out and ran until he fell again, tripped by brambles in the darkness. He lost his false teeth. When overtaken, he once more insisted on being shot or sent back to Nanking...
...with 1,600 passengers itching to be on the go, was unable to cast her moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces of the fog that hung heavy and motionless over some 500 miles of Europe...