Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead. Some 4,700 Japanese also died in the invasion, the first in a series of amphibious operations that sent U.S. forces island-hopping across the Central Pacific toward Japan. Robert Sherrod, the TIME and LIFE correspondent who filed the story of Tarawa in 1943 after leaping into neck-deep water and wading ashore with the fifth wave of Marines to hit the beach, has long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant, horrified response. "A whole generation," he said, "has matured without knowledge of a battle the like of which...
...morning last week, 99 coal miners on the midnight-to-8-a.m. "cateye" shift were working the rich bituminous veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
Kent Parrot, one of the greatest scorers in Harvard hockey history, is gone this year, but the Crimson hockey team probably doesn't know it. Deep at all positions, blessed with speed and quickness, and laden with scoring power, the Harvard varsity hockey team stands a chance of cracking Cornell's Ivy League dynasty...
...power is in the eyes, and the wisdom too. His soul is in those blue nuggets set back deep in their sockets--the only glow of color in his face. His skin is pink and peeled away, the shinylayer that is left to an old man after the epidermis is worn away. He wears a vest that he pulls at, a white starched shirt and a darkly polka-dotted tie. Behind the desk with its law books and walnut, he is only a head, only those blue gems of eyes. But he will stand every 15 minutes or so, walk...
Just as the Yale line is geared to stop the wide run, the Yale secondary plays to stop the long bomb. Their deep safety, J. P. Goldsmith immediately retreats on every passing play and then plays the ball once it is thrown. Cornerback Ed Franklin is a pro prospect as a defensive back...