Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exile in Mussoorie, had been warned to create no embarrassment for India. But he has been increasingly upset by news he has heard from Tibetan refugees making their way to safety in India. They report that thousands of monks have been placed in Red labor camps, that the vast Tibetan monasteries have been left in the hands of a few quislings, and perhaps 80,000 Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese...
...figures were a vindication for that small corps of Sino experts gathered in Hong Kong who, in the face of Chinese claims, had surmised a great failure and had reported food shortages in the cities while Peking was talking of vast stockpiles (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). And, as many Western observers had already suspected, the highly touted backyard steel furnaces proved a fiasco. None of 3,000,000 tons produced was usable in industry, confessed Peking. Between the lines could be read the bitter admission that the commune system had resulted only in pushing China's luckless peasants...
Fumed Minutes. Everybody complained about the flood of campers who this season surged into the Riviera like a horde of Goths. They crowded together in vast enclosures, with their tents squeezed close to each other, and paid from 4? to 30? per night for the privilege of bedding down. As the sleek cars sped by, campers stood at the edge of the road washing themselves-when there was water. For all the tourists this season the Riviera seemed cramped, and the resort towns are blending into each other to form an endless Côte d'Azur city...
...vast northern "Tomorrow Country" (TIME, Aug. 3), the 1,500,000-sq.-mi. Yukon and Northwest Territories, a happy discovery served notice on Canada that tomorrow is coming sooner than it thinks. On black-fly-infested tundra 175 miles above Dawson City, Chance No. 1, the first gas-oil well in Canada near the Arctic Circle, blew in with a roar. The discovery was made by Western Minerals Co., which belongs to Calgary Lawyer-Oilman Eric Harvie. Gushed the Toronto Globe and Mail: "A landmark in northern history." Sixty-one years after it struck gold, the Yukon had struck black...
...sensuous and cultivated mind. Sitwell begins his journey at the point where he dies. Traveling with other newly dead, part way by plane, part way on a craft called the Ship of Fools, he makes a voyage calculated to charm those who share a measure of Sitwell's vast reading, just as it will surely bore those who want to get on with the business of man's soul...