Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major reason for the Southern students' failure to conform to a certain image lies in the fact that they actually represent a vast divergence of background. Historic sea ports like Charleston and New Orleans resemble Boston or a West Coast port; inland cities like Chattanooga or Atlanta are primarily industrial, farming, and rail centers...
...vast majority of Frenchmen there seemed little choice. Either they would go on to De Gaulle's new constitution, or they would go back to governmental chaos. Having had plenty of the latter, an estimated 60-70% will probably cast their votes for the constitution...
...education," no one really believed that last week's shutdown would end prostitution in Italy. Even Deputy Merlin-who four months ago lost her campaign for re-election to Italy's Senate-concedes that most of the girls from the shuttered houses as well as the vast majority of the nation's 7,000 formerly licensed streetwalkers will simply join the vast army of clandestine prostitutes. Says blunt Angelina Merlin: "Thirty percent of all women between 15 and 60 give themselves up to prostitution in its various degrees." As for complaints that she has imposed an intolerable...
...Prime Minister Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, rushed to Damascus to share Nasser's balcony, returned promising quick Arab unity through union with Nasser's U.A.R., seemed to be challenging Kassem's leadership. Touring the country making rabble-rousing speeches, Aref promised to strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged altogether in a pan-Arab nation. Minority groups began to stage counterdemonstrations against the unionists in the midst of Aref's meetings. Word spread that Prime Minister Kassem favored...
Returns from France's vast overseas territories, with more than 15 million registered voters, were slow coming...