Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into the wasteland...
...from the skyscrapers of Seattle, George Brain has done a notable job of making democratic education flexible enough to give every youngster a chance at a good education. Taking over as the state's youngest superintendent six years ago, Brain proceeded, on the basis of a comprehensive and deep-delving planning survey, to put together a $45 million system of eleven elementary, three junior high and two senior high schools in a community that was little more than a little-red-schoolhouse hamlet before World War II. Five more schools are now on the drawing boards...
...Caravaggio's favorite color combination-red and black-which has influenced painters from Georges de La Tour to the abstract-expressionist Mathieu. It lifts realism to an exalted plane by making the figure a light in darkness, as Rembrandt was later to do. And finally, it offers deep insight into St. Jerome, whose devout, blunt, passionate nature appealed strongly to Caravaggio...
...leading Sunday paper. Wrote the competing Observer last week: "K. has ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors, and scarcely a trace of a Welsh accent...
...smear" is nc' done routinely in hundreds of U.S. laboratories, for an estimated total of 3.000,000 tests a year-most of them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker cough up deep mucus to reveal lung cancer; swallowed balloons and brushes to catch cells from stomach cancer; special washings to reveal disease in the large bowel and rectum...