Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time. Secretary Dulles cut short his Latin American schedule, flew home this week. Said he: "The [Egyptian] action could affect not merely the shareholders, who. so far as T know, are not Americans, but it could affect the operation of the canal itself. That would be a matter of deep concern to the United States, as one of the maritime nations...
...starboard window and gasped. The cause of her sudden shock: eerie lights of another ship glinting and sprinting out of the darkness towards Andrea Doria. A moment later, with a grinding, crunching roar, Stockholm's knife-sharp prow (reinforced for ice in northern ports) ground 30 ft. deep into the starboard quarter of Andrea Doria, just abaft her flying bridge. Then, with a shudder and shower of sparks, the shivering vessels jerked apart...
...initial rebel successes have diminished since the French moved 400,000 soldiers into Algeria. Mobile, hard-hitting French columns inflicted heavy losses on rebel formations and slowly drove them deep into the high plateaus that lie behind Algeria's coastal regions. By the beginning of summer, the rebels were losing their enthusiasm for open combat, and in the Kabylia alone 250 villages once again "rallied to France." With the military campaign going so well, the French government decided it was time to try the second phase of Premier Guy Mollet's policy for pacifying Algeria-the "parallel" program...
...Heads. But if veterans have cause to be grateful, so have the institutions they attended. For these veterans made a lasting impact on U.S. education. "In the service, veterans acquired a deep-seated appreciation of education," said Assistant Dean Robert Williams of the University of Michigan. "They brought a seriousness of purpose, knew what they wanted and went after it." They asked more questions, studied harder, and made higher grades than any students before them. Many were poor boys, knew education was a privilege, and not just something father paid for. "They had men's heads...
...weapons are exploded. The 1954 H-bomb test that made "7,000 square miles of territory ... so contaminated that survival might have depended on prompt evacuation" (according to the AEC's own reports) was exploded on a tower on a small coral island. Its fireball dug a deep crater and tossed millions of tons of pulverized coral into the air. This material, made highly radioactive by contact with the fireball, was the poisonous "atomic snow" that settled on boats, islands and water 220 miles away...