Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he reached middle age, he persisted in his favorite sport of mountain climbing. Then one day, as he was descending a dangerous peak, his rope jammed, and he went plunging downward to dangle helplessly over a deep chasm. "For 20 minutes I could not move," Alcide de Gasped recalled later. "Then I swung over to a ridge and was safe. Well, I was 54 then, and I decided I had better give up climbing. But looking back, it had been a good school for political fighting...
...built for the royal family of Yugoslavia, Communist Tito last week signed a 20-year "treaty of alliance, political cooperation and mutual assistance" with Greece and Turkey. Just six years ago, Tito's Yugoslavia was arming Red guerrillas fighting in Greece; a generation ago, Greeks and Turks were deep in a bloody war with one another. The new alliance joined together three nations with more than a million soldiers under arms: Turkey, 450,000; Yugoslavia, up to 600,000; Greece...
...marked by chafing nationalism, Ramon Magsaysay unashamedly spoke of "the deep appreciation and gratitude for all that America has done during the last half-century to help us attain the high state of progress and security we enjoy," and "the pleasant and fruitful relationship" that exists today...
...building the new defenses, the Air Defense Command will exploit a happy geological accident: the Continental Shelf, a wide, submerged plain stretching out from the Atlantic Coast. Unlike the prohibitively deep waters off the Pacific Coast, the shelf abounds in shoals where the ocean floor is less than 100 feet down, providing readymade sites for man-made islands...
...TIME, July 5), the Air Force island (nickname: "Texas Tower") will probably be a steel barge, some 200 ft. long, with 100-ft., tubelike caissons, each 6 ft. in diameter, running through vertical holes close to its sides. At the designated site, the caissons will be dropped and poked deep into the ocean bottom. Compressed-air jacks will inch the barge up its caissons, out of reach of waves and stormy seas. Then the caissons will be pile-driven into the mud, cut off and welded flush with the deck, then covered with flooring. Sand or concrete will be poured...