Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since. One of the men whose friendship Bell most cherished was the Philippines' late, loved President Ramon Magsaysay-an incorruptible statesman who never found any difficulty in combining deep pride in being a Filipino with unshakable affection...
...four short months Guinea has apparently learned that independence is a relative thing. It will not be easy for Africa to be completely itself, for no other continent has been so swept by foreign influence. Islam stretches not only across its top, but deep into the south-as far as the lower reaches of the Belgian Congo. Northern Nigeria is as rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade...
...most matters of faith, this inquiry has theological overtones. The historical schism between the traditionalists and the progressives has left deep scars on the vocabulary of educators, so that certain phrases and programs evoke emotions disproportionate to their nebulous meanings...
...small room deep in the stacks, the books from Longfellow's personal library line the shelves. The Longfellow papers have already been catalogued, and the letters written to him are now being arranged. The books on the walls are drab and faded; on the fly-leaf of a copy of one of Emerson's works, in splotched purple ink is the inscription "To H.W. Longfellow from the old granddaddy himself, R.W.E...
Religion is the "single greatest obstacle to the Communist criminal conspiracy today," Herbert A. Philbrick, author of I Led Three Lives, told the Divinity School Forum last night. Deep religious faith, he said, "is keeping the spirit of resistance alive behind the Iron Curtain...