Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poles also want change. If they become disillusioned with Gomulka's performance, or if the Russians think he is being pulled too far, the whole precarious experiment could come crashing down. But things cannot remain immovable. The current of freedom is running deep and wide through Poland...
...does a lot of listening at these sessions, his sharp blue eyes set deep in a sallow face, with its high cheekbones and bulky forehead, expanded by baldness. It is the face of one who has held stubbornly to his beliefs and acted resolutely upon them. But visitors are often astonished to find him so aged and apparently frail. He seems shorter than his 5 ft. 7 in., older than his 51 years. These are the marks of his lifelong apprenticeship to Communism. Years of imprisonment in his youth left him with a lung ailment, a police bullet has permanently...
Thus to the deep Polish hatred of the Nazi conqueror, Stalin added a boundary quarrel to make certain that Germany and Poland should have cause to resent one another eternally and thus preclude any secret alliances. Gomulka was put in charge of the new western territory taken from the Germans. He did Soviet bidding, though he was distressed by Russia's dismantling and removal of factories. "I fought against the Germans," he once told a group of peasants. "I will not allow Poland to become the 17th Soviet Republic...
...contract; today 58 tankers and cargo ships are being built and 23 more are on order. The New York Shipbuilding Corp. has $70 million worth of 1956 orders for tankers. Newport News has a quarter-billion-dollar backlog of orders. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., biggest in the Deep South, has enough contracts to keep it busy through most...
...immigrants, had to learn vernacular Hebrew at ages ranging from 19 to 33. Most of the stories reflect the authors' predominantly European culture, and echoes of Voltaire, De Maupassant, James Joyce and Sholom Aleichem sound more clearly than do the wild notes of Oriental imagery or the deep rhythms of the Old Testament...