Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen Elizabeth, fresh as the morning dew, drove in her Daimler through the dingy streets of London's East End and was cheered by crowds that were ten-deep. Next day, with blowing of trumpets and banging of brasses, she showed herself and was cheered in middle-class Chelsea and Kensington. She conferred knighthoods on Colonel John Hunt, organizer of the British expedition that conquered Everest, and on New Zealander Edmond Hillary, who made it to the top. At week's end, the Queen watched England's greatest jockey, Gordon Richards, newly knighted, win his first Derby...
...village hospital treated the wounded men. and the townspeople saw to it that they were fed and made comfortable. Later the ELAS swooped in again, and made off with the wounded prisoners. Close to the village, the guerrillas killed the three, mutilated their bodies, and threw them into a deep well. The villagers, terrified of Nazi retribution, recovered the bodies and buried them under a white cross in the village cemetery...
Mickey Mantle set a muscular chain reaction in motion. Starting in the ankles, rippling through knees, hips, torso, broad shoulders and 17-in. bull neck, he brought his bat around in a perfect arc to meet the ball with a sharp crack. High and deep it sailed. The White Sox centerfielder. playing deep, went a few steps back, then stood, face upturned, as the ball sailed over the fence for a 425-ft. home...
...writes as if he might be speaking in Meeting: in a rush and freshly, with a hot honesty that will carry many a reader unsuspecting into deep waters. For Quaker Maurer's concern is that human beings think less, talk less and write less about God and the universe, and start experiencing them...
...project will take 20 years or more to complete. A lacework of Yukon rivers and lakes, whose waters now flow north to the Arctic Ocean, will have to be dammed off in the north to form a new lake thousands of square miles in area and nearly 200 ft. deep. The backed-up waters, under one plan, would force the moving of the Yukon's largest town, Whitehorse (pop. 2,594), and the rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters through tunnels...