Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Psychiatric treatment need not mean prolonged analysis. If the boy is in his early teens and not set in his ways, a few hours of give & take interviews may suffice. The older the boy and the more deep-rooted the habit, the longer the treatment and the less the chances of success. Some who will not give up the habit can be helped to adjust to society so that they will do no further harm to others...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Thurgood Marshall, eminent Negro constitutional lawyer, told the court that the defenders of school segregation were asking for "an inherent determination that the people who were formerly in slavery . . . shall be kept as near that stage as possible." Said the big, deep-voiced Thurgood Marshall: "Now is the time . . . that this court should make it clear that that is not what our Constitution stands...
...wrote Lenin, and Communists obediently burrowed deep into U.S. labor unions in the '30s. Since then, the A.F.L. has cleaned house; by 1950, eleven Communist-run unions had been thrown out of the C.I.O. But Communist labor bosses, despite exposure of their Red ties by congressional committees, have managed to keep control of seven independent unions and of scattered locals within the C.I.O. and A.F.L. Altogether, these little Politburos still control some 500,000 members, or about 3% of all union members, some of them in the nerve centers of U.S. industry...
...successful adventure stories had a personal-narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description of deep-sea diving, The Silent World. Finest of the field was Charles Lindbergh's recollection of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis...
...physical planning of the Houses Mr. Lowell took a deep interest--one which extended to the shape and arrangement of individual rooms, the insistence upon a fireplace in every study, and the building of various parts of Lowell House at different levels so as to get more light and sunshine in every suite. At night he spent long hours in working over the blueprints of the architects and making suggestions...