Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra simmered down, the sepulchral voice announced: "Miss Elenita Ziegler!" and a stately young woman entered from stage right, on the arm of a young man. To an applauding ballroom she made a deep curtsy; then her young man led her down four red velvet stairs through the photographers, to a point where the choreographer, Mrs. Beulah Phelps Shonnard ("Now just a housewife, but used to work in a dance studio"), directed her to her seat...
...young ladies made their curtsies-some deep and dramatic, others stiff and jerky, others balky and bored...
...Saar deal. He pleaded against abstention-though he himself had abstained from voting on NATO and EDC. "It would be better to say no than to refrain from voting," he pleaded. "If your vote can be interpreted as a sign of weakness or hesitation . . . I say to you, with deep emotion, that the government will not have enough power to make its views respected." Concluding, Mendes bid for the votes of those who might be inclined to vote against him personally: "I am a patriot...
...meet the competition. Says one Hartford insurance executive: "We are competing with General Motors and Westinghouse for the average man's dollar, and we admit the average man cannot afford the kind of insurance coverage that he needs." The trend has shaken the insurance business to its deep and respectable foundations. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (No. 11 in the U.S.) has vigorously opposed the specials. In Life Insurance Courant, New York Underwriter Halsey D. Josephson complains: "The surrender . . . to the expedient of issuing specials . . . may very well be the beginning of the end of American life insurance...
...earth, Professor Ramsey believes the same pressure effect comes into play. Since the deep interior of the earth is extremely dense, geologists generally assume that it is made of heavy nickel-iron. Ramsey's theory is that the core is chemically much the same as the crust. Toward the center, the pressure is great enough to crush familiar rocky materials into heavy metals...