Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn each morning last week, a procession of anxious diggers trudged five miles to the chapel in Cristalina to light a candle at the feet of St. Sebastian, praying that he would guide them to a rich strike. Many other amateurs, discouraged by the boomtown prices and the depth of the veins, were selling out. Said one: "God put the crystal near the surface, but the devil pushed it to the bottom." As the amateurs quit, professional mining outfits were moving in to buy up their claims and get down to where the devil pushed the crystal...
...breakthrough into a whole new spirit," he says, "a sense of being part of a community at a level and depth that we've never known before...
...color of integration is green." In some Catholic dioceses, churches will soon demand that contractors and suppliers not only show compliance with federal fair-employment standards but take "affirmative action" in providing jobs for Negroes. "The church has matured to the point where it at least perceives the depth of the crisis," says Eugene Callahan of Chicago's Conference on Religion and Race. "A lot of the impetus in the use of money, power and community action will be a direct result of activities like the march in Selma...
...varsity in a full-field scrimmage, Munro a almost sure he has makings of a first division contender. Out of the first squad of last year's team, he is getting back his goalie and two-thirds of the attack and defense. But to judge the midfield and the depth, he will have to wait...
Harvard track teams have been good before, but rarely has one been as loaded as this spring's. There is talent in every event, and so much depth that coach Bill McCurdy could probably lose all his Heps champions with galloping elephantiasis and still mop up everyone on the dual-meet schedule...