Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...port cities until Allied bombs and the savage conflict between Nazi and Russian armies wiped them out, leaving half the homes and 60% of the factories gutted. Soviet plunderers took most of what was left-railroad rolling stock, machines and livestock. Under the Potsdam Agreement this barren area (the size of Virginia) went to Poland to compensate her for the Polish lands to the east grabbed by Russia. At Western insistence, Poland's authority was "provisional" until a final peace treaty was signed with Germany...
NUCLEAR BOMBER will be designed by Convair, which won Government nod over Lockheed. The near-sonic plane, to be powered by a G.E. nuclear plant, would be roughly the size...
...largest club of them all, the HYDC claims 224 members, of whom roughly a quarter are "pledged to put in two or three hours a week." Partly because of its size, partly because of the energy of its leaders, the club has developed a myth and vocabulary of its own. The president's "machine" is regulary referred to, and "organizational dynamics," the theory of "democratic centralism," "first and second echelons of leadership elite," and "bureaucratic hierarchy" are all considered phrases quite necessary to the club's operation...
Since relations with other groups are important, the HYDC has a Second Vice-President in charge of external affairs, a sort of counterpart to its First Vice-President in charge of internal organization. "Club growth beyond a certain size is almost self-destructive," remarked one officer, "because the social contact of smaller groups is lost, and the resulting bureaucracy may drive out amateurs...
...Bathers represents Picasso's most extreme production of the '50's. (It is no discouraging sign that Picasso at seventy-eight is as flexible as Picasso at twenty-five.) The opus is a single tableau consisting of six larger-than-life-size bronzes, cast of wood and miscellaneous materials. The figures are drastically simplified forms and they compose a play of varied rhythms in which the element of surprise is no small factor--a technique Miro uses to the hilt...