Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empty tanker's port side near the stern, flooding Valchem's lower engine room, shattering two boilers. Fire blazed in Santa Rosa's forward paint locker and amid the debris aboard the Valchem. In Valchem crew's quarters, just five or six feet abaft the deep cut, an oiler awoke into a nightmare. Said Artzy Vokeris, 53, in his broken English: "Lights out. Ship prow cut all lines. Gas steam in. Everybody trapped in room and can't see. I crawl on floor to get out. Butler and McKay right where collision is. Nobody...
...keener observer: a hidden camera rigged by Psychoanalyst James Robertson. The camera's eye saw that the emotional damage to Laura had been far worse than doctors or parents suspected. Even at 2½ she could put on a brave-front part of the time, to hide deep distress. But in 24 hours she was beginning to withdraw from solicitous nurses. Soon she withdrew from her mother, resenting her visits because she could not understand why they had to end. Back home, Laura was markedly anxious and irritable for weeks; six months later, mention of the hospital still revived...
...young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also has guts. When a backing horse broke his hip, Bond bellered for his Scotch and milk (the milk is for his ulcer, he explains, the Scotch for him), was on the set next...
...section of the book devoted to dissection of this personality will particularly offend academic readers. The professor finds himself described as "a moderate conservative in politics, clothes, and morals... satisfied with the world as well as himself... (diplaying) a deep sense of inferiority, fear, and maladjustment overlain by an almost fantastic sense of superiority... 'a harmless drudge'." Williams rightly says that he might have called his book: "Some of My Best Friends Were Professors...
Though it has come on hard times, the Villa Savoye is a landmark-if not a classic beauty-of architecture, ranked by many architectural historians as the modern house second in importance only to Frank Lloyd Wright's low-roofed, deep-shadowed 1909 Robie House in Chicago...