Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deep Commitment. Young and the league's leaders, straining to meet all but the farthest-out extremists halfway, zeroed in on two grievous weaknesses that beset black moderates: the lack of involvement in the slums by middle-class Negroes and deep-seated white racism. To Young, Alabama's Segregationist George Wallace "is as American as cherry pie." Replied Merchant Stanley Marcus, head of the famed Dallas Nieman-Marcus store: "We must have a deep commitment by a vast majority of the white citizens of this country that this is their problem." And when twoscore ghetto youngsters invaded...
...ages-old magma. Without warning one afternoon, Arenal blew a huge hole in its flank. Vaporized magma shot out at 1,472° F. and incandescent gas soared thousands of feet into the sky. Red-hot volcanic ash spread for miles across rich cattle-raising land, piling three feet deep in places. At least 78 people died, and further disaster struck searchers for the 100 or more still missing when a sudden sheet of flame engulfed a carload of rescuers, incinerating all ten occupants. Nearby Nicaragua, Salvador and Mexico offered aid, and U.S. C-130 transports mounted a shuttle service...
...Russians would seem to have of defeating his program is to somehow oust him as party boss. In the present mood of Czechoslovakia, that would probably require nothing less than a bullet-or the Red army. In spite of minimal concessions, Dubček is not yet in deep trouble with his party and clearly leads a united people. At week's end, Dubček called on the nation to back him with "strong faith in our good cause and confidence that the correctness of our new policy will be proved...
...weapon in use in Viet Nam today than the U.S. Air Force's high-flying B-52 Stratofortress. From the Demilitarized Zone to the Ca Mau Peninsula, the land shows countless scars-spots that look as if a giant rake had swept over them, long parallel lines of deep craters walking across the plains and over the mountains. The scars are the result of tons of explosives rained down in an "Arc Light" mission, a B-52 attack...
...government a la Johnson have stirred the nation form its customary political apathy. That is why the cords are so large, noisy, and unruly. What the politicians have forgotten, though, is that the crowds signify more than chaos, more than a desire for a good time. They reflect a deep popular desire to see the issues discussed with an almost un-American clarity and candor. And that is why the next President, whoever he is, may find to his dismay that new politics means not only greater public participation, but an increasingly demanding and critical public intelligence...