Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin Durkin as Secretary of Labor be announced without a word of warning to Robert A. Taft, the senior Senator from Ohio and the ranking G.O.P. member of the Senate labor committee. These political sins of omission were graphically ascribed to petty resentment against Taft and to deep-dyed political strategy. In fact, they resulted from plain carelessness and lack of Washington experience...
...Lawrenceville School, believes that the younger generation is "harder to fool than we were . . . [It] is fired by the same romantic ardors that bemused and entertained its elders; but it places more realistic odds on the probability of their fruition. This realism is not the expression of deep intellectual or philosophical convictions; nor is it to be interpreted as superficial adolescent cynicism. These young people are aware merely that you cannot count on as much as you used to be able...
Every new fire was a new problem. In Rumania, the caved-in well had made a crater 250 ft. wide and 65 ft. deep filled with small ground fires and a tangled web of melted pipeline. It took Kinley six months to lick the fire. In Oklahoma, when his leg was caught in some machinery and broken, Kinley got it set in a cast, went back to direct the fire fighting from horseback. In Venezuela, when shifting winds blew the fire on to him, he spent five weeks on his stomach in a hospital recuperating. In Texas...
...Madeleine is a triumph over the facts of life, a moving story of considerable charm and readability that is all the more remarkable be cause it is not about anything or anybody of seeming importance. What raises this artfully simple book above the commonplace is Author Henrey's deep respect for life itself, anybody's life...
Where Blood Is Green. The underwater world is a silent world, Cousteau testifies. "Hydrophones have recorded clamors that have been sold as phonographic curiosa, but . . . it is not the reality of the sea . . ." As for most of the conventional perils of the deep, the men-fish call them just fish stories. Cousteau says that he has never been attacked by an octopus?in fact, he has actually waltzed with them dozens of times on the sea floor, and he has movies to prove it. Only once was Cousteau in danger from a shark; and that was when the blood-spoor...