Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than being used by the Communists. Hourani burns with the ambition of building a "Greater Syria," which, if achieved, would topple Iraq's able, pro-Western leader Nuri asSaid, take oil-rich Iraq out of the Baghdad Pact and eventually unify Iraq, Syria and perhaps Lebanon in one vast Arab State under Hourani...
There was not a sound from the vast German crowd; even the cheerleaders were silent. At that moment only the flapping Red banners said anything about German-Soviet friendship...
...Friends Threatened. The evidence of a split in China's Politburo is the off-again-on-again confusion of the current "counter-rectification" campaign, which has caused a vast wave of discontent among China's intellectuals. Originally it was Mao who promulgated the "let all flowers bloom" thesis; in pushing it so diligently, he was mindful of Budapest and the need for some guarded outlet for intellectual ferment (as shown by his many worried references to Hungary in his secret February speech). But no sooner had the flowers of discontent begun to appear as shoots than they were...
...crown commissioners, requisitioning monastic estates for the crown and the nobles; his great-great-grandson, the first Duke of Devonshire, won political power for the family by leading the Revolution of 1688 against the last of the Stuarts. On the ancestral Derbyshire lands the duke reared a vast palace that stands today in its 50,000-acre wooded park as a proud symbol of the centuries of the Whig ascendancy. Successive dukes festooned Chatsworth's 273 rooms with Michelangelos, Raphaels and Rembrandts. classic sculptures and ancient books. To Chatsworth. where earlier Cavendishes had kept Mary Queen of Scots prisoner...
Nehru spoke the simple truth. Out of the bloody communal riots which racked India in August 1947 has emerged a vast secular state in which 320 million Hindus and 40 million Moslems live in relative peace. Against all the predictions of the Blimps, and the warning of Winston Churchill that power was being turned over to "men of straw." Indian democracy has survived to hold the world's two largest free elections; and against the immensity of its problems, even to have survived was triumph...