Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note this too: Acheson worked consistently within the traditional ideal of American foreign policy, namely, the deep belief that nations should be left independent, free to choose their own routes to progress. This goal, originally pronounced most explicitly (if a little cynically) in the Open Door policy toward China, has become through Acheson the main weapon against Soviet imperialism. Its moral force and it practical advantages seem lost on those who insist that the free world in exchange for United States money mold itself in the United States' die. They were not lost on Acheson, and thus a proven tradition...
...perhaps, justified in laying down prematurely the heavy responsibilities of the presidency of Harvard only if in so doing he accepts an equally challenging task of prime significance. My realization of the magnitude and complexities of the problems that lie ahead in my new position is mingled with my deep sorrow in parting from my many friends here in Cambridge and in educational work throughout the United States...
...head of Bucky sculptured in chromium, and a photograph of his beautiful daughter, Allegra. Mrs. Fuller, as befits the wife of a man concerned almost exclusively with the future, is apt to murmur "How nice, darling," in answer to almost any revelation from her husband. Once when he was deep in numerology, he conducted a marital quarrel entirely in digits. "He was terribly mad at me that night," Anne Fuller recalled, "but all he would say was '27-4-32.' " Genealogy connects Buckminster Fuller to Transcendental Concord, Mass.; he is the grandnephew of Margaret Fuller, friend of Ralph...
...twin, Roger, gave no such hopeful signs. He was in a deep coma, barely staying alive on an ounce of formula every half-hour by a tube through the nose. The doctors could not be sure what minute might be his last...
...worst of the pain can be made more easily bearable by the use of drugs. If a woman knows that this will be done, she is not so likely to have unreasoning, exaggerated fear of the pain itself. Moreover, there is a further distinct problem: many women have deep-seated anxieties which have nothing to do with physical pain-e.g., fear of increased responsibility, loss of personal freedom, economic hardships and overcrowding of the home...