Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep South there is a general determination to ignore, defy or circumvent the ruling, but no particular plan has been adopted. Deep Southerners are sulkily marking time, waiting for the Supreme Court's next move, which will be a decree outlining federal procedures for enforcing desegregation. The court will hear arguments on this subject in mid-October, may take several months to write its de cree...
This way of life continued until "something deep down inside him suddenly changed ... A cool moonlight night, a verdant prospect, pretty women, sweet music began to move him profoundly. Whenever he was moved by beauty, he wanted to be alone with his joy." The picture of a Burmese society girl, ripped from a newspaper, was U Nu's talisman, inspiring him "to do good deeds, champion the weak, subdue the oppressors...
...stopped the Communists seven miles from Rangoon. In the spring of 1949, U Nu flew north in his flowing longyi and organized the recapture of Mandalay. In 1950 and 1951, Burma's army gained the decisive Irrawaddy Plain. In 1952 the Burmese edged the Chinese Nationalists behind the deep-cut Salween gorges. For a man of peace, U Nu had accomplished a reasonable military...
Smug Group. In his campus office, President Darden, 57, a broad-shouldered, good-humored man, made no attempt to duck the basic issues. Said he: "There is a deep-seated cleavage over my purpose to relate the university to the public-school system of the state. It disturbs the smug group that wants to maintain a self-satisfied and narrow view of the university. They want to make it a sort of Princeton in the absurd social sense in which-Princeton is pictured sometimes-a sort of F. Scott Fitzgerald Princeton...
Things were even getting a bit thick in London. BBC Announcer Donald Gray, a ruggedly handsome six-footer who lost an arm on the Normandy beachhead, has a deep, quiet voice that thrills British housewives (said one: "It makes me all relaxed to listen to him-I think he's smashing!"). Among his burbling fan letters, Announcer Gray got an ominous note from an anonymous husband who claimed Gray had "mesmerized" his wife. The husband threatened to kill Gray unless he retired from TV. Last week another threatening letter arrived, this time setting the day for the execution...