Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your appraisal of Venezuela . . . A glance in another direction for a moment would also disclose that many Americans here with large families sometimes have difficulty in meeting their expenses . . . there is considerable unemployment [among them], with even larger Venezuelan families hovering from day to day around the one member working for one of the foreign oil companies operating in the area. A yet deeper survey would also introduce a few of us who came at the dawn of the present era of activity and who have spent the better part of our lives here . . . None of us are millionaires...
Only Turks. The nation he put back together was slightly larger than Texas-296,000 sq.mi.-its vast bulk nestled in Asia Minor, with 9,000 sq.mi. wedging into Europe's southeastern corner. Kemal was satisfied. "We are now Turks-only Turks," he exulted. He wanted none of the old overextended Ottoman empire. "Away with dreams and shadows; they have cost us dearly," he said...
...French National Assembly, in a bitter speech last week. "But he is there for four years, and the treaty we are asked to sign is for 50 years." A German countered: "We are asked to solve the most difficult and intricate problem in history -namely, to raise an army larger than Russia's but smaller than France...
...Performers." But the Army doubted that the Tennesons and the Hawkinses, the Dickensons and the others would see the 23 Americans soon again. U.N. officers were certain that they had been picked for display because they were "the top performers" among a larger group of Red-held progressives...
Traditionally trained but popularly inclined, Liberace toured the nightclubs for ten years. A year and a half ago, he discovered a larger market, has been carving a high-paying swath across the U.S. pop concert circuit ever since. In Los Angeles, his was the only concert of the year to fill the Hollywood Bowl (capacity: 20,000). In New Orleans, he signed autographs for 2½ hours after the concert was over. In Chicago, the Civic Opera House sold out four days after his concert was announced, had to schedule two more. Outside Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week...