Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle took power, he restored Ely to his old job, encouraged him in the quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness of the French army runs too deep to be cured by reassigning a few senior commanders. The real problem, as De Gaulle sees it, is to give France's young officers a mission more stimulating than colonial suppression...
...year-old La Cabaña fortress, death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal...
Driving home from a do at the home of a business comrade, the San Francisco Giants' Manager Bill Rigney steered off a true course. His car jumped the curb, hit a power pole. Score: a fractured collarbone and jaw for Bill, a broken hip, deep cuts on scalp and legs for wife Paula...
...proposed that "fruitful first steps" should be "in actual cooperation among churches in working for a responsible society . . . and efforts to secure religious liberty for all people in every land." Examples: unity against anti-Christian forces, collaboration in aiding refugees and underdeveloped countries-practical work that might thrive despite deep dogmatic differences...
...West alike are in equal condemnation by the real gospel." Yet the price of this attitude can be "moral irrelevance"-flawed by such asides as Barth's sneer at "praying away" Communism because God's answer might be American "fleshpots." Chided Niebuhr: "The dilemma is so deep that I would prefer to let the eminent theologian stew in it for a while, at least until he realizes that he is not the only prophet of the Lord." Barth's attitude "always involves the danger of speaking after the imagination of our own hearts. It is subject...