Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widespread feeling that the formal solemnity is being overdone," observed the Manchester Guardian. "Gloom, gloom, gloom drips forth from the BBC," complained London's Daily Express. But as the King's body lay in state at Westminster, Londoners felt a strong sense of history and a deep compulsion to share it. "I said to myself, Elsie, you put on your hat, I said, and take a bus and go up there," explained one member of the Great Queue. "I'm glad I came," said another...
...took off her skis and began a laborious trek, often hip-deep in snow,* down the 1,000-meter course. At each of the 59 "gates," the flag-decked poles marking the obligatory turning points, Andy paused and made mental calculations. She carefully gauged each hillock and bump, guessed at her racing speed, and mentally mapped a line of descent to follow. At the bottom she rested, then trudged back up the course, stopping again at each gate to review and correct her calculations. She was adding her own figuring to the slalom racer's standard formula...
...Angeles County (which frequently strives to be different) is building an underground dam-made of water. Purpose of the new dam: to keep the sea from seeping into the deep wells that supply a large part of the water for half a million people...
Died. James Gow, 45, onetime newspaperman who collaborated with Scenarist Arnaud d'Usseau on two hit melodramas for Broadway (Tomorrow the World, Deep Are the Roots) and the movie thriller Fourteen Hours; of hypertension; in Manhattan...
Kinship. The flash came too late for most U.S. morning papers, so afternoon dailies got the first break. Some of them, such as the New York Journal-American and Philadelphia Daily News, showed the deep kinship between the U.S. and Britain by running almost the same headlines as the British press: THE KING IS DEAD. They assumed readers would know which king was meant. The Christian Science Monitor, which seldom prints "death" in its pages, headed its story GEORGE VI PASSES; ELIZABETH TO FLY BACK TO LONDON, printed not a word about when, where or how he died...