Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiscal hole that the U.S. Government is digging itself into this year will not be as deep as expected. Last August the Bureau of the Budget forecast a deficit of $10.3 billion for the fiscal year ending next June 30. Recent "informed" guesses have been about $5 billion. This week, however, the best indications are that the deficit will be about $3 billion. One reason for the deficit in the deficit: defense expenditures will be much lower than anticipated, partly because of bottlenecks in aircraft production...
...whole is less than the sum of its parts, and the nation is more in need of a psychiatrist than a physician. In their moments of candor, the French recognize the missing element in themselves: it is civisme, a sense of community responsibility. Divisions are as old and as deep as the French Revolution. At the root is a profound lack of faith in government, an individualism carried almost to the point of anarchy...
With such a background, young Acton was destined to have a curious education. He studied with Catholic scholars in France, England and Germany, and by the time he finished, he had delved deep into every aspect of history. He could read and all but memorize two books a day. He was said to have known everyone worth knowing and to have read everything worth reading. He was a familiar figure in the great Whig houses, at Windsor Castle and the papal court. He spoke English to his children, German to his wife, French to his sister-in-law, and Italian...
...cases in which disease of the adrenal glands causes an excess output of the male hormones. If the trouble starts in a baby girl still in the womb, it brings on outward physical changes and makes her look like a boy. In a few years she will have a deep voice and may start to grow a beard. If the trouble comes later in childhood (perhaps as the result of an adrenal tumor), most of the changes will be superficial-flat chest, narrow hips, deep voice and hirsutism. In a boy, the effect is to produce excessive virility, commonly shown...
...driving rain last week, block-long crowds lined up four-deep along Manhattan's Madison Avenue for the opening of a new bank. "Look at them," said Manhattan Savings Bank's President Willard Denton. "Nothing like this has ever happened in banking before!" The reason was that Denton, in moving the headquarters of his medium-sized bank from lower Manhattan to midtown, had made an effort "to get the cold atmosphere out of the banking business...