Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of service abroad, he had no great interest in accepting a presidential offer as Ambassador to West Germany; and 3) he had an attractive offer to work in private industry. In accepting the resignation "with deep regret," the President wrote: "I am aware of the vast contribution you have made on behalf of all of us in your efforts to advance a just and secure peace...
...Italian Tricolor flapped proudly in a fresh sea breeze from thousands of windows and rooftops of Trieste. Quick-marching into the Piazza dell' Unità, beplumed Bersaglieri were hard put to it to clear a path through the delirious crowd of 250,000 that shook the vast square with endless roars of "Viva l'Italia! Viva Trieste Italiana!" Thus, after nine postwar years as a "free territory," the citizens of the Adriatic port city of Trieste deliriously greeted their reunion with Italy...
...apparently believes in a guilty-until-proved-innocent policy. It is frightening, regardless of how the game Twenty One was played, that an organization with such power in choosing vast quantities of ideas to be presented on TV to the American people can practice such an un-American ideal...
...that they have been strong enough to absorb it, Old Australians are developing a new tolerance and a new national assurance. For whatever the oddity of their new neighbors, the Old Australians count on them to help their nation survive as a Caucasian island on the edge of a vast and alien Asian continent...
...made him TV's biggest producer. Sundays at his Beverly Hills home he likes to relax by donning a topee or a menacing German combat helmet and a British officer's short jacket and moodily marching about with his poodles (names: Hedda and Louella) and his vast television dreams. Occasionally, his reverie may be shattered by a cry from his third wife,* blonde Musicomedienne Vivienne (Pal Joey) Segal: "For heaven's sake, Hub, take off that damn helmet...