Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last throw." "There have been a number of personal attacks on me," said Gaitskell, "but I don't complain." "I complain," Mrs. Gaitskell piped up. In his best parade-ground manner, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, no candidate but deep in the battle, barked: "Anybody who votes Labor should be locked up in a lunatic asylum...
...atmospheres, 134 p.s.i. above normal. Instead of being searing hot, as they had feared, it proved comfortably warming. But there was no time to enjoy it. Not a second could be lost, or they would begin to suffer nitrogen poisoning-Jacques Yves Cousteau's "rapture of the deep"-which makes men behave irrationally and often suicidally...
...beginning, Miraglia told police, he always felt that he would spend only what he later could repay. "But I got in so deep I couldn't stop. I lost count of what I was spending." From Montreal he flew back to New York's Statler Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room...
...flashing vigor of his imagery; sometimes he welds disparate images to startle the reader into a rebirth of wonder. At the first patter of a summer drizzle, "dust swallowed up the pills of raindrops." In an offshore storm, "skies crouch lower/ Flying downward/ Steep/ Sea slopes/ And finger the deep/ With wings of clamorous gulls...
With halfback Marsh McCall, wing John McIntosh, and inside Ted Wendell leading the way, the Crimson offense spent most of the contest deep in Lion territory...