Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supply the leadership needed for a nation if that person is not truly a native. England and the rest of Europe had better wake up to the fact that colonization is long since past. No tea-sipping, drab Englishman sitting in London or Johannesburg, regardless of his vast knowledge and experience, knows all the problems and needs of the African. NORMAN EDWARD ROURKE Tulsa...
...anything so vast be excellent? It has no leader, no philosopher, no hand on the tiller. Public education is a headless wonder. The problem: to give its body-the citizens-faith and direction. Few men have tried with calmer good sense to work to this end than James Bryant Conant, 66, volunteer Inspector General of U.S. public schools...
...novel upturns sociology; young Parmelee is sound enough, but his world is maladjusted. He belongs to the moneyed society of Long Island, and the vast shingled mansions have deteriorated sadly since the great days of the 'gos. A good deal of the money is still lying around, but so, unfortunately, is the society. Of the buttoned-down youths who lead lives of quiet self-satisfaction, Reese is scornful: "As Christians they have accepted atheism. As Republicans they have accepted socialism. As snobs they have accepted everybody. Yet they still live by forms...
...decades since then, few foreigners have seen Bukhara. But its neighboring ancient cities on the vast Central Asian steppes seem to have learned their lesson. In the bustling streets of modern Tashkent and the redolent, mud-walled courtyards of Samarkand (pop. 170,000), short, moonfaced Uzbeks with golden skin and embroidered skullcaps no longer call the Russians hated koperlar (infidels). The commissars have done their work well. This summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded...
Sovietized Republics. Two vast, state-directed migrations did much to change the character of Turkestan. The first was in the 19305; the second was Nikita Khrushchev's drive to open up Kazakhstan's virgin (and barren) land. The newcomers did not mix well with the Uzbeks, Kazakhs and other Moslems, but, largely as a result of their efforts, the land (now divided into five Soviet republics) has made considerable economic strides...