Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change Comes Hard From the deep fissions and hard fusions of the South, where no leading public figure had yet dared affirm the validity of the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins last week sounded a clear call for reason and conciliation. Said he at ceremonies marking his reinauguration: "It will do us no good whatever to defy the U.S. Supreme Court ... Its decisions are the law of the land. And this nation's strength and Florida's strength are bottomed on the premise that ours is a land...
...Such marriage counseling often digs cruelly, but always humanely. One day a chaplain advised delay when he found out that the airman was deep in debt (which the British girl had not known). Another chaplain, after hearing the story of a well-off British girl who wanted to marry an airman with a grade-school education and go home with him to a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, also recommended delay. Still another chaplain tried to discourage the marriage of a Southern Negro to a British white girl, even to the point of going to the girl's parents...
...Back in Business. Teller's "if" is enormous-but practical. To save lives and limbs under nuclear attack, the U.S. needs "deep underground shelters [so numerous] that in any densely populated area in this country people can walk to a shelter within 15 minutes." Stored in the shelters would be food, medicines, communications equipment, decontamination devices, and mining machinery for digging out through blast-blocked entrances. "These shelters," he writes, "could provide protection, not only against the radiation hazard, but also against the biggest immediate hazard, the fire-storm...
...Positive Side. Potter is a Communist in reverse himself. For 15 years he was a leading party organizer in Reading. But in 1953, he reports, "I began to feel a deep unrest." Billy Graham came to England, and Potter decided that such a proficient crowd mover might have something to teach a Communist tactician. His first meeting left him cold, but later, when he attended the baptism of a friend whom Graham had converted, Potter was deeply moved. At a Communist mass meeting in Reading Market Square, Potter turned Red faces redder with the announcement that he had turned Christian...
...wing John Wylde received a deep gash in his right leg near the end of the game...