Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to a crowd of over 100 Harvard, Radcliffe and Wellesley students, the Pennsylvania Democrat voiced deep concern over the "age of complacency" which, he said, has prevailed in the U.S. since...
TIME, President Eisenhower, the Supreme Court and other do-gooders may as well try-to dam up the Mississippi River as to force white and colored children to go to school together in the deep South...
...named Erno Bellante, who was building a road past the town of Sperlonga (pop. 3,000) by the Tyrrhenian Sea. Taking time off from his prosaic work, Amateur Archaeologist Bellante set workmen to digging inside the grotto of Tiberius (who reigned from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.), 90-ft.-deep cavern hard by the site of Tiberius' famed Villa Spelunca (Cave Villa).* Beneath six inches of limy earth, one of Bellante's men struck a marble fragment shaped like the calf of a human leg, about twice lifesize. The diggers dug on to more than 400 pieces...
...sense much of a man and knows very well that publishing is not his game. The plot concerns a young novelist who has concocted a piece of what Gerald calls "illiterate trash," which somehow brings tragedy to the three publishing types-Gerald goes over the deep end dressed in a girl's frock; Tony dies of what must be diagnosed as a continuing beating administered by life; and Kevin loses control of the Primrose Press. Only the young novelist comes out all right: he gets the girl, his book is snapped up by Doubleday and a book club...
...began to pay premium rates to 100 native diggers, set them to work two shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's first stage-a broad shaft cut out of limestone 33 ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface...