Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party in January, or in 1952, built around the British Trade Union Congress model so strikingly duplicated in ADA, crackled through the convention before adjournment. There was substantial feeling that in the long run only one course could whip the devil and escape the rushing waters of the deep blue...
...coolly critical of Truman's record. Both members and leaders called themselves "the third force" in civilization, rejecting the status quo of the Right and the worldwide totalitarian program of the Communist Left. Every-where it is the third force which finds itself today between the devil and the deep blue...
Traffic Jam. Each visitor was provided with a car, and for a while, chauffeured limousines were jammed three-deep for five blocks on the street leading to the Foreign Office, as diplomats waited to present credentials...
...most imaginative of Author Wilder's imagined documents are those written by the chief of Caesar's secret police, dealing with an attempt on Caesar's life after he has reluctantly agreed to attend Clodia's dinner. Wounded by assassins on the way, with two deep cuts in his right side reaching from his throat to his waist, Caesar nevertheless insists on going on, after his wounds have been bound with sea moss...
Please God. Almost in one breath Runyon could bid the world be gay ("This [is] the best show in town") and sonorously reproach its gaiety ("There were men . . . and women . . . standing chin-deep in . . . this bloody trial and giving some offense to high Heaven, it seems to me, by their very presence"). When nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder enters the courtroom, Runyon deftly massages the hearts of a million mothers ("She was, please God . . . a fleeting little shadow . . . and she stood looking bravely into [Justice Scudder's] eyes, the saddest, the most tragic little figure, my friends, ever viewed...