Word: remotest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every enterprise in Russia is watched and judged by the party. Its presence radiates from Moscow to the remotest district in the land, no longer holding its subjects with terror but with the stern and pious stare of orthodoxy...
...seemed wholly exempt from the contagion. Those who were not enthusiastic were at least curious. On the strength of their appearance, Ed Sullivan doubled his ratings. Even the highest brows and the remotest recluse were undone by their young. Painter Andrew Wyeth, for instance, was badgered by his 17-year-old son into wangling a ticket, admits he would have gone along himself if he could have found a pair. Happy Rockefeller took young Jamie and Wendy Murphy to the Carnegie Hall concert-the first time she has been photographed with her children since her divorce and remarriage. In Washington...
When he finally does go to bed and tries to sleep, the city dweller has to contend with the incessant noises. Sub urbanites are not much better off, and the remotest home on the range may lie under the path of roaring jet airliners -the same swift giants that carry a man halfway around the world in half a day, and throw his built-in waking-and-sleeping clock out of kilter...
With no scholarship and little money, she entered a kind of determined vagrancy, carrying an air mattress with her. "I would turn up at even the remotest friend's place and ask for floor space," she says. "A cupboard. Anything. God, it was awful, moving around with my little mat." She worked at odd, wearying places in the summer, such as a Schweppes factory ("Ugh"), where she grew to hate the taste of bitter lemon. Then BBC-TV picked her up for a science fiction serial called A Is for Andromeda. Movies have weaned her away from television...
...ancient Persian empire. But the region has since eroded into a virtual wasteland; the last major reclamation attempt was a system of irrigation canals dug by King Shapur II in 300 A.D. The new dam will water 360.000 acres, and provide electricity even for the province's remotest villages and five cities, including the oil-refining center of Abadan. opening the way for industrialization...