Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accused in "a unanimous roar." The Communists set aside the four Shanghai airports for public executions. In one day they shot 293 people. This did not break the record set by Nanking the day before with 376 executions, but there was reason to believe that Shanghai with its larger population would win the contest in the long run. Hangchow (pop. 500.000) only executed 50, but it reported proudly that more than 110,000 people had "waded through rain-soaked streets" to witness the occasion. In two days, 719 Chinese had been executed, an average of one every four minutes...
...what Douglas MacArthur called "a war of large magnitude [in] a contracted sector," a war it did not seem able to win except at its foe's pleasure. It was restive and resentful under an unaccustomed restraint-a fear that using its full strength might bring a larger war in which there would be no victor...
...State Department's failure to prevent or control the Iran mess is part of its larger failure to devise a policy for the entire Middle East, which today is a power vacuum as dangerous to Western security as the Far East, and even more inviting to Russian aggression...
...Stacked about him are the bound volumes of his scripts: One Man's Family (14,704,000 words); I Love a Mystery (3,400,000 words); the Woman in My House (102,000 words); His Honor, the Barber (182,000 words). Bulking large on the shelf, and even larger in Morse's imagination, are the 765,000 words of the TV version of One Man's Family...
...work cut out for him. He plans to use the returns as a guide in planning his future sermons. Meanwhile, theological arguments have been breaking up parishioners' bridge and canasta games, and Grace and Holy Trinity's post-Easter Sunday congregations have been running about a third larger than usual...