Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats were jubilant and applauded hilariously, while the smiles froze on the faces of the Republicans . . . The President seemed to be delighted with the sensation he had created and the consternation he had wrought among Republican statesmen. Their curses on him for that speech were not only deep, but loud...
...strict quarantine measures, are the only known methods of stamping out the savagely virulent disease. Canada's Department of Agriculture is enforcing both measures to the limit in Saskatchewan. The 22 farms where the disease exists have been tightly quarantined. Bulldozers have begun digging a series of deep trenches on the hard-frozen prairies. As fast as the mass graves can be dug, cattle, sheep and goats from the infected farms are herded into them and shot by Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables with .303 rifles. More than 1,200 animals have already been killed or condemned; the slaughter...
...since 1856, when Indians almost captured them all, have Seattle citizens been so threshed up. Their city (pop. 463,000) is deep in a round of newspaper debates, public meetings, private arguments and brawls. Friendships have been strained, and Christian Scientists have taken counsel with medical doctors-all because of a proposal to put sodium fluoride in Seattle's drinking water...
...Nelson's empty hand, nonetheless, Novelist Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles has tried to create a modern hero. Dyar is not a man, he is a vacuum. His only deep desire is to fill his own emptiness. He throws up his job as a New York bank teller, takes ship to Tangier, and waits for things to happen to him-any things, so long as they are solid enough to give him the feeling of being in touch with reality...
Johnny breaks down, but Gerard refuses to turn back. They hit a dirt track pitted with deep holes which must be taken in first gear. Then comes a stretch of washboard to be crossed at 50 m.p.h. so that the truck will skim over the crests of the ridges. One of his shock-absorbers, Gerard discovers, has been sabotaged by another man who hoped to get the assignment. Farther on, Gerard and Johnny barely miss a collision with a truck carrying the other half of the nitro. In one village, both trucks are misled to a side road...