Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...populace was the answer of President Paul Magloire to an impromptu strike by the drivers of the share-the-ride station wagons, used in Haiti as buses and taxis combined. The drivers were protesting against a government measure that seemed to thrust at their very livelihood: a steep boost in the police fines they regularly expect and richly deserve. Few had bothered actually to read the new scale of fines, but according to the telejiol, Haiti's famed word-of-mouth communications network, merely sassing a cop could cost $24 instead of the traditional $1. Worse, they heard that...
...research ship Vema steamed back into New York Harbor last week with new information about the "rivers" that flow on the bottom of the ocean. About 600 miles east of Philadelphia, where the Atlantic is 17,000 ft. deep, the Vema's sensitive sounding apparatus found a steep-walled canyon two or three miles wide and about 180 ft. deep. The scientists followed it for 100 miles and they have reason to believe that it may run for 500 miles across the bottom of the ocean...
this was so steep as to have artificial stairs, composed...
...first vacation as Secretary, after the hard-driving Alaskan swing, McKay went on a hard-riding packhorse trip in California's Yosemite National Park (part of Interior's domain). For five days McKay, wearing a comfortable cowboy outfit, roughed it frontier-style-riding the steep Sierra trail, cooking in the open, camping out at night. This week, at his summer house on the Oregon coast, he relaxed with his family (13 in all, with Mabel McKay cooking...
Woodstock, N.Y. is one of the nation's prettiest, homiest and most distinguished art colonies. Its steep hillsides, near where Rip Van Winkle boozed with wilderness ghosts, are patched now with fallow fields. Each "farm" has its barn, and almost every barn conceals an artist's studio. Last week a little of the harvest from those barns was on exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association Gallery. It made a conservative but sunny display. Most Woodstock painters seem to like picturing pleasant things in more or less understandable fashion. (Advance-guardists go elsewhere, chiefly to East Hampton...