Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably Kaganovich who brought him to Stalin's notice. As chief of Stalin's personal secretariat for nearly five years, Malenkov had a key to the leader's safe and to the party's private files. He burrowed deep, learned much, and kept his mouth shut. Soon he was preparing the dossiers of those to be liquidated in the Great Purges of 1935-38. He replaced those who died with men loyal to himself, slowly built up a personal apparatus within the party "cadres...
...Most of us, before we met him, thought he was a bandit leader who had pushed himself to the top of his government. That impression was wrong. We knew at once that we were dealing with a highly intelligent man . . ." Said Churchill: "Stalin left upon me an impression of deep, cool wisdom and absence of illusions," added that he had "a very captivating manner when he chooses . . ." Said Roosevelt: "Altogether, quite impressive...
Smoking My Sad Cigarette (Jo Stafford; Columbia). A deep blue mood with a lot of words, but still a likely bet for a top seller...
Homeless ticks drifting slowly toward the smell of food are rather pathetic creatures, but once they have pushed their barbed beaks deep into blood-rich flesh, they grow fat, conservative and greedy...
Reynolds' stubby hands turn huge trees into strange antler-like fans, fill his canvas with marsh reeds as gaunt and glittering spikes, and dandelions as wildly dancing figures-all in deep green, creamy white, swirls of rich brown, red and yellow. Sometimes he takes the other tack, drains his canvas of color then his moonlight scenes become spooky tangles of waving hop vines, brush piles and squat, triangular chicken houses...