Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Street-roaming delinquents might not have been listening this week, but the kids saw and heard the physical translation. The gentle police approach was gone; "headbeaters" (cops) were on watch everywhere. And behind the men and women in the deep blue uniforms stood the toughest cop of all, keenly aware that the responsibility for keeping the peace was his, positive that his approach to juvenile delinquency was the proper one for a policeman-especially since the other approaches had not solved the problem. For New York's fisty finest, Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy had a last basic police order...
...propeller blasts whipped his thin shirt, but probably saved him from being overcome by engine fumes. And, to his horrified surprise, the retracting big wheel began to rise to crush him. Fighting back his panic, Bas Wie scrambled into the only possible place of safety-a space ten inches deep and 20 inches high, between a fuel tank and an exhaust pipe...
...mistreatment of a capable war novel by Joe David Brown (TIME, April 9, 1956), is one of those embarrassing pictures that say all the right things but obviously do not understand what they mean. It says that war is hell, that love is holy, that color is only skin-deep, that insincerity is the root of all evil. But it says all these things as a parrot requests a cracker, by rote and without conviction ; and instead of conviction, the picture offers a tediously sentimental farewell to arms and a rather painful exhibition of the sort of placebo liberalism that...
...Maritain adds: "Deep beneath the anonymous American smile there is a feeling that is evangelical in origin-compassion for man, a desire to make life tolerable...
...seems to be getting harder all the time to raise spirits from the vasty deep, and if it were not for a few medium-rare souls, including Arthur Ford, magical goings-on would be largely confined to the hinterlands of Africa, the Caribbean islands and Tibet. The author of this book, a professional medium and onetime minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), was once urged by his familiar spirits to get out of the stock market. The time was 1929, and, wherever it came from, it was a rattling good tip. The recipient naturally believed that...