Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawing a thin line to grant "the right to express . . . deep moral conviction" and "the privilege of voicing . . . deepest doubts," but to deny "emotional involvement." The privilege to express and voice is surely an empty one, if the privilege to act is withheld...
...fathers of New Delhi took action at last against the 4,000-odd free cows and bulls at large in their city. A task force of 100 picked cow catchers, armed with ropes and long poles, gathered each night at dusk near the municipal post office for briefing. In deep secrecy, lest the cow owners foil their plans, the posses deployed to strategic spots in the city, blocking off the ends of streets and side alleys. Their main idea was to trap the vagrants and drive them into a temporary pound, but time and again the cornered cows would charge...
believes that the continental shelf is at least as rich in oil, acre for acre, as the narrow coastal strip of Texas and Louisiana. He predicts that within five years a vigorous drilling campaign in water up to 150 feet deep should find oil reserves of four to six billion barrels. Beyond the 150-foot line, the shelf should be just as rich, and no one knows in what depth of water the drillers can learn to drill...
Amphibious Oil. The oilmen have approached the sea by easy stages, meeting it first in the Mississippi delta, where land and sea are interlaced. Winding bayous snake through the land, connecting brackish lakes only a few feet deep. What looks like land is often sea with tall grass growing up through...
...streams of compressed air. One stream runs through tubing to each of the caissons and inflates a heavy-walled rubber "inner tube," locking the caisson tightly to a steel ring. Then other inner tubes inflate, expand, and drive the caisson into the mud. Eventually the caissons reach firm footing deep in the mud. Then, inch by inch, the barge climbs up its own caissons like a boy shinning up a tree...