Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deep in a spectacularly beautiful gorge of the River Jhelum last week a 25-pounder boomed. From the distance came an answering roar, and an Indian commander pointed to the top of a hill. "Our men are up there," he said. "Pakistan's army holds the hills beyond...
...Toward dawn our guide led us to the rim of a deep hollow, blanketed with yellow kunai grass. At the bottom were three dilapidated board shacks, before one of which a woman puttered over her morning chores. As Stafford led the squad crawling down into the hollow, the woman glanced up and shrieked. Three armed men burst from the house and fled for an opposite hill...
...flatfooted. Some drew their bank savings and went on buying sprees. The foreign credit manager of one bank arrived at his office late to find careless clerks doling out precious dollars at the old rate. In the Calle Isabel la Catolica, flooded by recent rains, money changers stood shin deep in water, clinking handfuls of gold coins and arguing prices. They offered six and seven pesos for a dollar and readily went higher. Anxious travelers and others who urgently needed dollars paid 10, 12, and even...
...confession is an ancient form of psychiatry (or that psychiatry is a secular corruption of confession) is common among Catholics, and shared by some non-Catholics. But the assumption is founded on ignorance: few Catholics know enough about psychiatry and few secularists enough about confession to see the deep-set difference between them. An articulate exception is the Rev. Victor White, a British Dominican, who writes about the difference in the current issue of the Catholic weekly, Commonweal...
Another Part of the Forest. Lillian Hellman's feral study of family life in the Deep South; acted, tooth & nail, by Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and a strong supporting cast (TIME...