Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sergeant Gilbert Georgie Collier, 22, of Tichnor, Ark., who was injured when he and his commanding officer stepped off a cliff in total darkness deep in enemy territory. Collier refused to go back with the rest of the unit, but stuck it out with his commanding officer. They crawled back up the cliff, hid, were ambushed and separated. Collier was wounded, ran out of ammunition, and routed four of the enemy with his bayonet before being rescued. He died at a battalion aid station...
...making. Harold Ickes was primarily interested in great events in so far as they soothed or ruffled Harold Ickes. Nevertheless, The Lowering Clouds (Simon & Schuster; $6), third published volume of Ickes' sometimes fascinating diary, does make a contribution to historical accuracy: it should go far to correct the deep public impression that Harold Ickes was a lovable and forth right "old curmudgeon." He reveals himself as a devious old egotist...
Mendès, taking the rostrum, said that as a result of the "remorseless campaign" of lies and calumnies conducted by "certain leading persons in France," he had suffered ''deep humiliation" when negotiating with allied statesmen in London. "I will not submit to this usury," he said. "The question which faces you tonight is . . . does the government have your confidence as patriots and Deputies?" The vote: 287 to 240 in favor of Mendès, his smallest majority...
...shift for itself alone without governmental support. This hard fought milestone in economic progress has by now been won. It is now official doctrine not only of New Deal Administrations, but of the Eisenhower Administration itself. The government can no longer stand by while the economy collapses into deep depression...
...young lovers, the moon resembles a shell-battered World War I battleground. Clusters of craters are scattered across the satellite's cracked, rugged face like smallpox scars. Many are ringed by mountains up to 20,000 ft. high; some are more than 100 miles across and four miles deep. What caused these lunar markings? Astronomers advance two theories: the craters are 1) the shells of extinct volcanos, or 2) the result of meteorite bombardments some 4 billion years...