Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unprecedented boom grew beanstalk-fast from a 3,022-ft.-deep borehole in a cornfield near the dusty little village of Odendaalsrus, southwest of Johannesburg on the Free State's sandy veld. A Canadian engineer, G. W. Hicks, employed by Diamond Tycoon Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's Western Holdings and Blinkpoort companies, brought up the diamond-drilled ore core. It assayed 62.6 oz. of gold to the ton-33 times as rich as the phenomenally prosperous Blyvooruitzicht mine, 120 times better than Canada's best...
Most Egyptians looked as if they were smelling something. They were-the West Wind. One day this week the 17,000,000-odd dwellers along the Nile arose at dawn, took several deep breaths, and went picnicking. It was the Shamm en-Nesim, the one common holiday for all Egyptians-Moslem, Christian and Jew. Once a Coptic feast day, the Shamm en-Nesim means literally "the smell of the West Wind." Irreverent Americans in Cairo call it "sniff-the-breeze day." Egyptians believe that a lungful of the departing spring air will ward off summer languor-provided the sniffer manages...
...From deep in the heart of Texas up to the Platte River in Nebraska stretched huge carpets of deep, primaveral green. The plains and rolling hills of Kansas rippled in the wind...
...There stood an enormous lady giant. She was a good 20 feet tall, with nasty little red eyes and scraggly hair. . . . She carried Jack into the castle and set him to washing the giant's supper dishes from the night before [deep sigh']. And no hot water! As he was finishing, he heard a terrifying sound. Clump, clump, clump! Someone with size 36 shoes was coming down the stairs...
What had got into the New Republic? The change was more than skin deep. On a magazine which had gained little new blood in 15 years, a massive transfusion was under way. It had been okayed by amiable President Bruce Bliven, 56, longtime New Republic careerman, but the doctor administering it was a newcomer. Editor Michael Whitney Straight, 29-year-old son of the late NR Founder (and Morgan partner) Willard Straight, was sure that the liberal-weekly was going places. Just where it was headed, neither he nor his readers could say for sure...