Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After about 26 hours of debate and after turning down a series of limiting amendments, the Senate passed the resolution 85-3. Only Morse, Langer and Lehman voted nay. Many of the 85 Senators still had deep doubts, but their position was aptly summed up by Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Said she: "The situation is such that we do not have the luxury of freedom of choice in this matter . . . The circumstances do not permit us the liberty to differ with the President on this resolution. For if we did, and the resolution were defeated...
...from the Communist North, and a Confucian ballet performed by 32 silk-clad girls. Diem also impressed the villagers by his coolness when his ceremonial barge, overloaded with admirers who clambered aboard, capsized and sank in the river near Hué. "Ladies first," Diem insisted from knee-deep in the river, when rescuers put out from shore...
...Wednesday last the walks in the Yard were for hundreds of feet an inch and a half deep in snow slush by ten o'clock in the morning. This was merely the snow which had been packed down by the passers when it fell, and which was sure to melt with the first thaw. As this was inevitable, provision might have been made ahead, so that when the snow began to soften on Wednesday morning, a dozen men set to work promptly could have made all but two or three of the paths clear and dry before eleven o'clock...
...undergraduate took to other pastimes on the duller weekends. After the muddy Ohio game, old Matthews Hall was almost blown from its foundations by two freshmen and their rocket fuel, a Claverly room caught on fire, and a resident of the same hall accidently suffered a deep chest wound...
Prophets & Promises. Nehru's confusion was all the more apparent, since he had journeyed south purposely to stump against the Communists in the tight, important campaign for the Andhra state elections. The Communists are driving hard to win in Andhra, an arid land cut by ravines and deep poverty. The Communists are stronger there than anywhere else in India. Andhra is India's first "linguistic state," formed in 1953 among the 21 million Telegu-speaking people. As such, it is only one of 29 Indian states, but India's Communists hope to make it their first conquest...