Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Allen White or the Committee to argue that the U. S. had a vital interest in the way the war turned out. There had never been any doubt that the overwhelming mass of U. S. citizens hoped for a British victory. But there still remained big arguments and deep doubts about what the U. S. as a nation could and should do to help Britain win. In Editor White's view, his Committee functioned to give citizens a chance to speak for the things they wanted done...
...burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more help than Faye Plank could give...
...American people . . . have taken their blessings for granted . . . lack a clear perception of what is at stake. . . . Education can help to clarify the nature and goals of democracy. It can portray the American dream of a nation with liberty, justice and opportunity for all . . . develop in all citizens deep and abiding loyalties to the central values of democracy. . . ." Authority: "Must the American people, for the period of the emergency, place the authority to decide issues of national policy in the hands of a few persons...
...Pennine Range, which are old Paleozoic uplands winding north & south, cut in two by a gap between Manchester and Leeds. Through this gap a canal was dug in the early 19th Century to connect the Mersey River with Aire River and the Humber Estuary which flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with...
...lawn Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Henry Wallace and Attorney General Robert Jackson put on an exhibition of boomerang throwing for cameramen (see cut). Before News-photographer Byron Rollins, who was snapping them, could get out of the way, one of the boomerangs came back, knocked him down, cut a deep gash in his scalp...