Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, a man who makes vast good sense when he confines his conversation to the familiar worlds of industry and production, demonstrated again last week his equally vast ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time "in the wrong place. At Quantico, Va., where he had gathered 150 of his civilian and military defense leaders for the annual review of defense spending, Wilson and newsmen engaged in this exchange...
...cannot contain his laughter at and contempt for Stalin's military genius. Of the historical and military films of Stalin he says that 'they make us sick.' The snag is that on those films, on those books, on those poems there was organized the most vast propaganda hoax in the memory of the world...
...Quebec hustings the Liberal politicians unblushingly fired it at Duplessis, charging that the big iron-ore project in Ungava and other U.S.-financed enterprises were "giveaways to foreigners." The maneuver boomeranged on the Liberals. It merely drew the voters' attention to the province's vast industrial development and general prosperity in recent years-and gave them one more convincing reason to re-elect Maurice Duplessis...
Best hunting ground for neutrinos is near nuclear reactors, from which, by the Fermi-Pauli theory, they stream in vast numbers. So Reines and Cowan took their apparatus to the AEC's Savannah River plant. They set it up in an underground room where it was sheltered from distracting cosmic rays but exposed to a flood of neutrinos from one of the great plutonium-producing reactors...
...Colombia, $95 million for highways, agriculture, railroads, and power development. Most dramatic project: a railroad along the winding Magdalena River to replace stern-wheeler river boats as Colombia's main transport, open up vast new areas for cattle production...