Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTED STORIES OF ANDRE MAUROIS. In 38 tales framed as conversations, recollections and letters, the late distinguished partisan in the battle of the sexes takes a deep look at women who are either wise or foolish, vital or declining, in love or remembering what it was like...
Admitting that there were deep divisions within the Democratic Party, Johnson said that all parties had their internal disagreements, though "we have perhaps more than our share sometimes." Clearly, he felt that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee contributed more than its due. With a passing reference to the fact that, historically, the committee's chairmen have "almost invariably found a great deal wrong with the Executive in the field of foreign policy," he took a swipe at the present chairman, J. William Fulbright, who had just pushed through resolutions urging Johnson to take the Viet Nam issue...
Despite all the headlines and all the talk during a long and hard week, Britons-and many others in the Western world-experienced a deep sense of shock at the news. Until the last minute, there were hopes and rumors that Britain would be able to free herself, at least temporarily, from the heavy pressures on the pound by getting a massive loan from its Western allies. After all, the pound is one of the two international reserve currencies (with the dollar), and its devaluation was bound to throw the West into a severe monetary crisis. Still, there...
...increased German aid. There are also reports in Rangoon about big shipments of U.S. counterinsurgency weaponry and of the presence of a U.S. training mission to teach Burmese pilots to fly newly delivered F-86 jet fighters. Washington officials stress that the U.S. intends to avoid any deep commitment in Burma-and with good reason. The country's rapid rate of deterioration makes South Viet Nam seem almost a model of stability...
Arendt calls him "a figure from fairyland," and none who knew him can resist commenting on the sparkling, playful eyes lodged in his deep and at times overpoweringly sad face. Elizabeth Bishop remembers him looking "small and rather delicate but bright and dazzling, too" on the crest of a Cape Cod sand dune, writing in a notebook. Robert Fitzgerald finds his face "old-fashioned and rural and honorable and a little toothy." His wife says that he grew the immense beard to look like Chekhov, but to another observer it hides "the naked vulnerability of his countenance...