Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home owners insisted on erecting immediate, temporary shantytowns on the site of their former homes, blocked Le Corbusier's efforts for large-scale reconstruction projects. Even in completely leveled towns like Saint-Dié in the Vosges mountains, deep-rooted French villagers wanted just what they had before the war. Sighed Le Corbusier: "They don't want a new, clean, modern town. They just want to rebuild their same old hovels on the same old spots where their grandfathers built them...
...ability of her stable to win, was that she obviously loved horses. She never bets on her own horses, and rarely bets more than $5 on anyone else's. The Silent Partner. Just when Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses were doing their best, Silent Tom got into deep trouble with the New York Racing Commission. The charge: that he had "hopped up" one of her horses with ephedrine (TIME...
...with big bands: saxophonists who stood up and writhed as they played; a brass section with a nose for noise rather than an ear for melody. He opened last week at "The Aquarium," a gaudily mirrored Broadway seafood restaurant stampeded nightly by tourists and servicemen, who lined up three deep...
...Clare Boothe Luce's Distinguished Gentleman Smelling Flowers, apparently based on an A.P. photograph of Harry Truman deep in a White House flower bush...
...failures of Trotsky's Stalin is that he cannot admit one staring fact: Stalin won what Trotsky somewhat grandly calls "the grand polemic," because a majority of the Communist Party sensed instinctively that the nature of Stalin embodied, far more than the more brilliant Trotsky, something deep in the nature of Communism itself...