Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the great god Ruwa liberated mankind by smashing a vessel in which the first humans were imprisoned and scattering them over the mountainside. Actually, the 360,000 people of Chagga-land are a mixture of many tribes who for some five centuries have dwelt among Kilimanjaro's deep ravines and lived by their wits. Their wits have brought them far. Last week the European tourists who panted up the mountain behind studiously nonchalant guides found themselves in a country that is mostly Christian, and brims with more promise and progress than almost any land in Africa...
...Stroessner, reinaugurated last week, has stabilized the currency, balanced the budget and held the rise in cost of living to a low (for Paraguay) 1% per month. And Chile's President Carlos Ibanez has sacrificed his personal popularity to back tough economic reforms, made even tougher by a deep slump in the world price of copper, the country's main export...
...self-confidence, Khrushchev ignored the deep-seated hostility inside the Kremlin bureaucracy toward a summit meeting inside U.N.-a hostility clearly indicated by the fact that the first reactions of the kept Soviet press to the proposal were uniformly unfavorable. Worse yet, he obviously failed to keep in touch with Mao, whose journalistic mouthpieces, right up to the moment that Khrushchev accepted the proposal, were denouncing it as "deceptive," "ridiculous," "full of pitfalls...
Prince Edward County, deep in the tobacco and pulpwood country of south-central Virginia, kept Negroes out of white schools for four years after the Supreme Court ordered integration, but this summer, time seemed to be running out. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered U.S. District Judge Sterling Hutcheson to set a date for integration. The county school board-one of the defendants in the legal fight that led to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision -bid for a five-year delay, to make a "sociological survey...
...South last week: the triumphant primary victory of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (TIME, Aug. 11) boosted segregationist hopes that the Federal Government can successfully be defied. Integration leaders and law-abiding moderates look gloomily toward the beginning of the fifth school year after the Supreme Court decision. The Deep South will generally continue to bar all Negroes; the border states give little promise of progress, plenty of omens of trouble...