Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under 80 m.p.h. winds. It piled up mountainous drifts, leveled windmills and fences, ripped up loose crops, killed about 100,000 precious head of cattle. Caught in the blizzard were thousands of homeowners and travelers. Aboard the Union Pacific's Denver-bound City of St. Louis, stopped in deep Kansas drifts, 213 passengers and crewmen huddled for two days, ripped down the train's drapes and curtains to keep warm. In Tascosa, Texas, 16-year-old Chester Simpson stubbornly set out on foot to keep a date with his girl 30 miles away in Amarillo, staggered to within...
...spot commercial (for Mentholatum Rub): "These are arthritic hands. They belong to a retired foreman and 20-year sufferer of arthritic pain and misery. You're looking at them now as they experience a totally new kind of pain relief . . ." An Infra-Rub plug: "Brings comforting warmth from deep within . . . 146 doctors report success based on hundreds of cases." For Omega Oil: "It contains an active ingredient that actually penetrates the skin...
...achievement, is the eldest, christened Gaston, but who quickly changed his name to the more romantic Jacques Villon ("Gaston is no name for anyone, let alone a painter,'' says Marcel). Sobersided and nicknamed "Grandpa" by the family, Jacques Villon has spent a lifetime fishing in the still, deep pools of his own sensibility...
...erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts. He irresolutely stuck to Marshal Petain's Cabinet in 1940, but two years later protested the twisting of the constitution into a dictatorship, was arrested by the Nazis and held until near war's end, when...
Carrying little moisture, the snow piled 35 inches deep at Leadville, high in Colorado's central Rockies, and 18 inches at Colorado Springs. It ranged from an inch deep in southeast Colorado to ten inches reported at Lander...