Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic difficulty is that Nikita Khrushchev, a man reaching the top at 63 (Stalin was 47 when he got there), is trying to do too much all at once. With an industrial production roughly one-third that of the U.S., Russia is 1) maintaining the world's largest armed forces, 2) trying to overtake the U.S. in production of meat, milk and butter, 3) sending aid not only to the satellites and Red China but also to susceptible Middle East nations, 4) facing an increasingly vociferous domestic demand for better housing and more consumer goods...
...announcement granted amnesty to all Nagas for past (but not future) guerrilla activities, promised an end to the military practice of "regrouping" Naga villagers into what amounted to concentration camps, and heralded the formation of a single, self-governing "autonomy within the Indian nation" out of the two largest Naga areas. This new "state" will unite some 250,000 Nagas now living under the hated and mistrusted government of Assam with another 200,000 of their fellow tribesmen in rugged, steep-hilled Tuensang...
...Palestine's early economy and confirm that the men of Gibeon were not only "hewers of wood and drawers of water" but also drinkers of wine. Since the jars bear the names of wine-making firms (Hananiah, Azariah and Amariah), they also offer scholars one of the largest finds of Hebrew writing of an era some 500 years before the Dead Sea Scroll period...
Tomorrow, for the first time in nearly 30 years, the Harvard Band will not have the largest playable drum in the world at a University football game. It will have only the second largest...
Phelps expects this year's enrollment to top last year's total of 2,890. This is the largest group of individuals outside the College being instructed under Harvard auspices...