Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shacks, tenements, modern homes and tastefully built hospitals that make up "black Leo." In the darkness, millions of candles glow under the mango trees where Negro market women do a roaring trade in bread, beer and dried fish, green-and-brown-striped caterpillars (a delicacy when fried in deep fat) and blackened lumps of elephant meat...
...stanza poem, dashed off by Virginia last week in Washington, where her husband was attending the governors' conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with President Eisenhower. Title: The President Smiled at Me. Excerpts: "The President smiled at me/ And every fiber of emotion swelled within my soul . . ./ So deep was my humility . . ./ When the President smiled...
Seoul, Okinawa, Formosa, Hong Kong and the Philippines were still unknown quantities, but eight other Japanese cities were already showing signs of matching Tokyo's enthusiasm. As one Tokyo critic explained it: "My eyes were blurred with tears of my deep feeling. We have been waiting these many years just for this night." Said another enthusiast: "I feel as if I had eaten a big beefsteak of music...
...heart of a 970,000-acre oil concession, deep in the green hell of Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province. McCarthy has found a promising oil and gas field, there drilled three wells. The problem is to get the oil out. With his fresh money, McCarthy plans to build a feeder pipeline, tie in with a Bolivian pipeline recently completed to within 15 miles of his properties. Said McCarthy, as cocky as ever: "I want to speed things up down there. There's enough oil there to build bigger and better Shamrocks...
Harold L. Goodwin, test operations director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, said that anyone within one mile of the blast would have been killed by radiation or flying debris. A few people in deep bomb shelters might have survived, but even two miles from the blast injuries would have been serious and few would have escaped...