Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kelley pushed the first pitch high and deep to Bill Chauncey in left. Chauncey's throw pulled MacDonald off the plate and Umpire Bartin Boyle ruled Easton safe MacDonald protested in vain...
John Maher, a converted first baseman, finished for the varsity, allowing an insurance run in the ninth, but pitching himself out of any serious troubles with the aid of two double plays and a good throw from deep center by Billy Cleary to cut off another...
...deep stillness lay across the wasteland of Dienbienphu. A shroud of gunsmoke lifted from the dips and hollows where the French Union garrison had died. In the stillness, there was only a muffled tramp! tramp! tramp! as the worn-out prisoners moved north, or a sudden, shuddering thump as an ammunition dump went off, or a dull buzz in the sky where the French C475 were keeping their death watch. It was a graveyard world down there, the French pilots reported, a tornup world of broken stones and cluttered bunkers, while around it the jungle would soon regain its ancient...
...Viet Minh's ack-ack spat up at him, Earthquake made the wide circling letdown to 1,500 ft., lumbered across the deep valley until the "kickers" shoved the load out through the big rear door over the ever-shrinking drop zone. Four times Earthquake's plane was hit. Once a slug cut his elevator controls, and he had to fly home on the trim tabs. Reported Earthquake cheerfully: "We could make it go up or down, but never stay level. We went home like a kangaroo...
...having Marilyn up front and center, looking winsomely at the landscape. The dialogue is sicklied o'er by a philosophic glaze, and Marilyn's reading of some of her more majestic lines has inspired studio publicity men to trumpet the claim that she "unveils a deep emotional insight and a tender dramatic gift never before displayed." Probably much more to the point is Marilyn's own comment on the satisfactions of co-starring with He-Man Mitchum: "It's wonderful to play opposite a guy you can't pick up and throw across the room...