Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss of a friend, a desertion from his Cabinet, and finally a moment of deep happiness were combined in one of Dwight Eisenhower's best and worst weeks. Flying overnight to Washington from his Denver vacation headquarters, Ike spent a busy nine hours in conference with top advisers, accepting the resignation of Labor Secretary Durkin, and attending funeral services for his old bridge partner, Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...quiet, courtly Virginian of deep religious faith and independent character, the cloud was a vindication of a rather lonely fight-a vindication he was the last to want. When he heard the news about the Russian explosion of a "thermonuclear device," Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 57, new chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, informed the other four AECommissioners, and then started working day & night to speed the U.S.'s own thermonuclear bomb production program. Not much was said, but AEC was keenly aware of two fateful facts of U.S. history: 1) had it not been for Lewis Strauss...
...Careful always to distinguish between "Soviet microbiology" and the ordinary kind, Prague's Dr. K. Raska offered a solution to a medical puzzle: Why has the scarlet-fever bug dwindled in virulence during the past 50 years? The Soviet-style answer: "Deep social changes...
...Story of Esther Costello (Knopf). It is a skillfully written attack on the ruthless ballyhoo which makes an innocent handicapped girl the center of a charity racket. Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that things aren't what they seem to the neighbors. In his new book, In Love (Harper), Alfred Hayes, author of The Girl on the Via Flaminia, explores an unpleasant Manhattan love affair without writing an unpleasant book...
...brusque way, "is that she is a man: all the more so since she wants to be one." Pianist Chopin agreed. "How antipathetic this Sand woman is!" he complained after meeting her. "Is she really a woman at all?" Soon after, he wrote in his diary: "She gazed deep into my eyes while I played . . . My heart was captured! . . . She loves...