Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also concern that Carter's approach may result in the Kremlin's cracking down even harder on protesters. Further, there is real fear at the State Department that Carter's statements might undercut Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who has a deep personal stake in improved U.S.-Soviet relations. Harried by Carter and vulnerable to his own hardliners, Brezhnev could be forced to take an obdurate stand on the SALT talks to show that he is not knuckling under to Washington...
...there is all that much staff work to be done. At 9:30 a.m. every morning, the chiefs gather around a large rectangular table where they discuss union matters until noon. After lunch, they join the leisure class for the rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner...
PHILIP MARLOWE was always a hard one to figure. He was a loner, and he liked that way. A streak of cynicism ran through him as deep, his creator Raymond Chandler might say, as a spotted geister in a Chicago overcoat sent back-stroking in the blue Pacific. He was a hardened private dick, a real pro, and could trade quips and insults with any manner of wise-cracking low life. When a dumb and slutty millionaire's daughter tries to lead him on in The Big Sleep, cooing "you're cute," the unarousable Marlowe answers back, "What...
These disputes include the union's contention that Gorski's efficiency drive, which entails increased individual workloads for University policemen and a freeze on new hiring within the force, has destroyed the policemen's morale by creating "a deep mistrust of the chief of police...
...with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing North Atlantic that night--most of them Irish and Eastern European immigrants travelling in steerage class--was buried deep in the inside pages, hidden below another tragedy, the Giants' Christy Mathewson's dropping of the baseball season opener to the Boston Braves...