Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heaven and Ike's in the White House and has a commendable score in golf and a long string of trout ... To many, shocked by the deep-freeze-mink-coat-elec-tion-campaign mess, it should now be regrettably obvious that the electorate sacrificed Abe Lincoln Stevenson for General Ulysses Grant Eisenhower. Everybody likes Ike, but not everything and everybody that Ike likes...
...enjoyed the life and tradition of an English country squire. Yet again & again he left his comforts to ride into the nearby wilderness. There, this man with a deep sense of the past surveyed the land of the future. He was famed among his neighbors for a strict probity in business dealings, and again & again was asked to act as executor of estates and guardian of minors. Yet he was a gambler. He gambled at cards and on horses; his project to drain the Dismal Swamp (it is only partly drained to this day) was in a line of wild...
...with a typical distortion of McCarthy's power, finding him in alliance with "powerful interests in contemporary America," including "a substantial part of American Roman Catholicism" and "many American industrialists." The New Statesman smugly concludes: "It is anti-Communism that binds these social forces together. It is a deep social malaise that finds the same outlet in anti-Communism as that which so many Germans found in anti-Semitism...
...with a penchant for the copper-riveted "levis" which San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss began making for gold miners and cowhands back in 1850 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). High school girls quickly copied the craze. Spare-time yachtsmen found that salt water gave the deep blue levis a faded look, which became so fashionable that youngsters dumped bleach into the family wash to fade their...
Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...