Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark corner in a large cage in a Pittsburgh zoo sits Jambo. He huddles beneath a blanket with only his eyes staring glumly out to greet the world. His eyes are deep brown with dark rings beneath them. His entire appearance is extraordinarily melancholy--especially for a gorilla from Central Africa. But Jambo is not only melancholy and underweight--he is neurotic...
...confiscation of the catch and a stiff fine of approximately $14,000 per poaching boat). The Russians advised Oslo that it was all "a regrettable misunderstanding," said there had been no premeditated poaching, and appealed to Norway to release the 15 Soviet boats. Relieved Norwegians stopped looking for deep political motives beneath the Red herring chase. "I think it's just plain fish-nothing else," said an official...
...pair of shoes, bought with money earned as a grocer's errand boy. Recalls one of his seminary teachers: "I never saw such a remarkable memory in a child. He could recite an entire page by heart after reading it once. He was not what I would call deep, but he certainly was bright...
...replacement for a missing tooth. Now Dentist Ernest M. Pafford of Phoenix, Ariz, has carried the idea to its technological conclusion: wisdom teeth and a few front teeth extracted from patients needing whole dentures are tagged for blood type and Rh factor, then preserved indefinitely in a deep-frozen tooth bank. When a tooth is transplanted, it is first held in place by a blood clot in a carefully made socket in the recipient's jaw. Discomfort usually passes off in about 18 hours, and the tooth's tiny blood vessels establish links with the circulation...
Playwright Mary Drayton has tried to exploit the traditional Southerner's predicament in a time when deep-seated customs must die in face of social progress. She has brought to this situation the modern, probably Yankee assertion, that it's quite proper to mess around sexually with someone before marriage, the better to suit one's mate later. The two require a good deal of delicacy in treatment, particularly if the play has no moral resolution. Unhappily, the makers of Debut have used a heavy hand...