Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip's end there was no doubt in the President's mind that he had done himself some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...
...ministerial act that set angry South Africans of all shades jampacking Johannesburg's Market Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve the people of the Union from the strain of the war years," Minister Swart released from prison five wartime traitors and saboteurs. One was 34-year-old ex-Boxer Sydney Roby Leibbrandt, who had been landed from a German U-boat to organize the pro-Nazi underground. South Africans remembered...
Green Grass of Wyoming (20th Century-Fox). Thunderhead, son of My Friend Flicka (Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, 1945; My Friend Flicka, 1943), is a wild, spectacular white stallion who gallops magnificently from ranch to ranch scrounging beautiful young mares by the dozen and leading them off to his harem deep in the hills. In the current installment this beguiling libertine is transformed into as meek a monogamist as ever commuted from Westchester...
...high points-Thunderhead's sensuous, rushing and wheeling courtship dance with the night-sleek Crown Jewel, and the heartbreaking, helpless panic of the two horses when the mare has foundered belly-deep in sucking mud-present unused possibilities of much greater suspense and excitement than the man-made climax of the trotting heats...
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...