Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choosing. Similarly, Cuba-bound cargo aircraft would be intercepted and forced to land at a U.S. airport for inspection, or be shot down. As for Soviet submarines, they would be sought out by radar and sonar. U.S. forces would signal an unidentified sub by dropping some "harmless" depth charges while radioing the code letters IDKCA, the international signal meaning "rise to the surface." Any submarine that ignored the order would be depth-charged for keeps...
Gene Kinasewich was practicing yesterday, but his chances of playing are increasingly doubtful. Captain Tim Taylor, Jerry Jorgenson, and Ike Ikauniks are the only other returning forwards that played consistently last year, but the team showed significant depth yesterday and should, as Weiland stated, "do all right...
Walker conducted an immense and powerful organization Friday night; there seemed to be no limit to the depth and richness of sound available to him. In fact, he seemed overwhelmed at times by the 130 musicians he led. But the situation never got out of control. Despite the great numbers in this year's football band (at least 50 more than last year), attacks and cut-offs were sharp and precise. The ragged entrances that marred previous Dartmouth concerts were absent; clean, precise playing was evident in nearly every selection...
...depends on the varsity's showing in the "Big Three" meet against Princeton and Yale on Friday. Yale will be boasting its unbeatable Bobby Mack while the Tigers have a depth not seen in the Ivy League for some time...
...only time in his life, Wilde looked at himself clearly and steadily. He wrote, at one point in the letter, that the supreme vice is shallowness. The great talker had that vice; he had also, though he spent a lifetime trying to conceal it, the painful virtue of depth...