Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albert Gore for the Associated Press: "How deep the Nautilus can dive is a secret. But there is no secret that I had nervous twinges as she plunged down in excess of 300 feet. How fast she will race through the dark, briny depths is also a secret. But it was the thrill of a lifetime to break all previous records in this respect as the midnight hour approached . . . The food we ate was cooked by atomic power. The water we drank was distilled from ocean water by atomic energy. The submarine was not only driven but lighted, heated...
...Admired Senator George Bender's St. Patrick's Day necktie-a deep green foulard bearing the presidential seal-and promptly traded his own tie (brown, with a trace of green) for Bender...
...across) African violet, fingered some rare orchids, tossed seven quarters in a series of wishing ponds, accepted a boutonniere. His progress was difficult, what with the enveloping reporters and photographers, officials and a fluttering brood of dowagers pleading that the flowers be spared. When a photographer slipped ankle-deep into a pond, a glaring garden clubber cried, "Shame...
...counterproposal became, with some minor changes, the substance of the Yalta agreement on Poland. It ignored Roosevelt's four Poles project. It drew Stalin's frontiers for Poland, including on the west a deep wedge of Germany to the Oder-Neisse line. It held fast to the Lublin Poles as the base for a provisional government. It pledged the Big Three to recognize this government before elections for a permanent government...
...Winston singled out the remark attributed to him about Poland ("I do not care much about the Poles myself"). "I do not at all accept it," he said. "My record throughout the war . . . will show with what deep sympathy I viewed the fate of the people of Poland." Churchill himself, as eminent historian, had rushed into print as fast as anyone with newly declassified material. Besides, so far as Yalta was concerned, he and Anthony Eden could take some comfort in the record; whatever his own verbal indiscretion, the fact was that only the British delegation had fought with skill...