Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September 10 issue you note that Stevenson states: "Eisenhower doesn't really know the country. He was out of it, or else he was at Army posts, insulated and isolated." This seems an extremely narrow-minded viewpoint. Mr. Eisenhower, thanks to his vast experiences outside the U.S., is the one man best suited to guide a world power through an era which demands consideration and knowledge of all nations...
...whose life has been lived in a vast corporation do not see a disaster like the drought as a human problem. They see farms and livestock only as statistics. As a result, relief is grudging and reluctant, too much red tape, too little real help-and always too late . . . Many of you here [at Oklahoma City] today are farmers. You have had particular reason to feel the neglect and the indifference of a big-business administration. For three years the Republican leaders watched farm prices fall with philosophical calm. This is the nice, polite way of saying they did nothing...
More than two months after it occurred, the Canadian government last week made public details of another Soviet espionage case. Gennadi Popov, a second secretary at Ottawa's Soviet embassy - the same embassy where Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko exposed a vast spy apparatus in 1945 - was ordered out of Canada last July for trying to bribe an R.C.A.F. civilian employee...
...Mayor Takayama, whose father founded the first Y.M.C.A. in the city, the sightseers' gold was an asset that should be shared by the temples with the city as a whole. To help pay off his city's deficit (1,800,000,000 yen) and to construct a vast urban convention hall, the mayor proposed a 5-to 10-yen tax on each temple admission...
...place in a single line. To Elizabeth Nowell, his literary agent and the editor of this volume, he described the Midwest as "fat as a hog and so fertile you felt that if you stuck a fork in the earth the juice would spurt." Brooklyn was a "vast sprawl upon the face of the earth, which no man alive or dead has yet seen in its foul, dismal entirety...