Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spina site will produce no stately, columned temples. All that remains is the foundations of the city, but when they are excavated carefully, they may yield information more interesting than any number of temples. The brilliant Etruscan culture, which flourished before the great days of Rome, is a deep mystery. Etruscan tombs are stuffed with striking art works, but Etruscan remains other than tombs are scarce. Out of Spina, covered for 2,000 years with preserving mud, may come knowledge of Etruscan buildings, government, religion and social structure. Historians may learn where the Etruscans came from; they may even find...
...early scenes, the camera roots like an indifferent hog through a heap of white trash in the Deep South. In a rotting mansion on the Mississippi flats, in an upstairs room filled with dolls and hobbyhorses and empty Coke bottles, a ripe-bodied young woman lies curled in a wrought-iron crib and sucks her thumb as she sleeps. This is Baby Doll Carson McCorkle ¶Carroll Baker), who "had a great deal of trouble with long division . . . and never got past the fourth grade." In the next room a balding, slack-jowled, middle-aged man, still dressed in frowsty...
...that she would feel no pain. To make doubly sure, he gave her instructions to make her lose all sensation in her right hand. Then he told her to put this hand to her chest so that this area too would lose sensation. Satisfied that she was in a deep enough hypnotic state, Dr. Kroger told the surgeon: "Your patient is ready." For ten minutes, as the surgeon removed the growth and sewed up the wound, Dr. Kroger kept on intoning reassurance to the patient and inducing her to lapse into a deeper hypnotic state. When the operation was over...
...studded the movies to pay off their huge costs. Some network executives professed to be unworried; they said that affiliates are showing the big movies on their own time, not during the choice hours pledged to networks. But NBC, staunch champion of "live" television (in part because of its deep involvement in color TV) is frankly fretting...
...long waves, is his simplified equations, which treat the atmosphere as if it were as two-dimensional as a sheet of paper. Looked at in the large, this is not far from true. The part of the atmosphere that concerns the weather is only some seven miles deep, and it covers the surface of a globe 8,000 miles in diameter. Proportionately, it is much thinner than the skin of an apple...