Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This discovery was no surprise to Bruce C. Heezen of Lament Geological Observatory, the Vema's scientific skipper. Two years ago, the Vema found another canyon south of Greenland, which it traced north and south for 1,200 miles on the bottom of the Atlantic. Heezen believes that there must be many such gorges and that they are the channels of mud rivers that formed the level plain on the ocean floor...
...most West Germans, the struggle back to prosperity has been a dramatic success, though for all of them it was grim. Along the way, many despaired and died without lament. Two good new books on Germany, one fact, the other fiction, lament those Germans who went to the wall. The books share a common theme: courage and tragedy...
...When Adam (Howard Keel), the eldest, gets himself a wife (Jane Powell) by singing one of those rare ballads (When You're in Love) with love in the music as well as in the words, the other brothers celebrate their single cussedness by yowling a funeral Lament (for a lonesome polecat) that should fracture even the toughest audience...
...McCarthy-Stevens television hearing will be suspended, and consequently there will be No Crime Saturday morning. Cambridge readers are warned that in line with their traditional reading period hibernation, Crimeds will take off for a bi-annual inspection of Lament...
Love Affair (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). An intense lament with a fine tune, sung in a rough-tender style that puts Songstress Sanders right on top of the vocal heap...