Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his confirmation moving to the Senate floor, Strauss was still in deep trouble. Clint Anderson was working furiously against him, had made the Strauss case a Democratic confidence vote in Anderson himself. Lewis Strauss, no man to sit idle, was doing his own spadework. dropping in on Senators' offices to enlist support. An informal tally last week showed 46 Senators favoring Strauss, 45 against-and seven key votes undecided. Among those undecided was Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, whose decision might well make the difference. But Johnson was in no hurry to make up his mind: he planned...
...boating buffs who drove across the Mormon desert country in southeastern Utah last weekend and unhitched their outboards on the verdant shores of the Green River for the second annual 196-mile Canyon Country Friendship Cruise. Into the water they went, dodging sandbars, winding past craggy red cliffs, through deep and colorfully named canyons-Moonshining, Hell Roaring, Upheaval...
...decline of the Baroque at the end of the seventeenth century. Here, the ways of looking at a painting as discussed in the first term would give depth to a historical study of art styles. The student at last would have a chance to emerge with a deep familiarity with a significant era in art history. What is far more important, the course will have made a thorough attempt to "increase the student's visual perception of works...
...began in the 1920s. Violence passed like a bad tornado. Scientists and statisticians grew to greater importance. Probably the most important geological breakthrough came when Geologist Everette Lee DeGolyer used a reflection seismograph on the Seminole plateau, sending man-made sounds deep into the earth and gauging the echo to find "the rock beds humped up into a little dome which might be a trap for oil." In 1930 the well blew in at 8,000 bbl. a day. "This was the most important well drilled in America since Spindletop; reflection seismograph revolutionized prospecting for oil as completely as Spindletop...
...Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A deep-diving visit to wrecked ships that have littered the ocean floor off France's south coast from as far back...