Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be national in character, but universal in its foundations, and it must reach the vast majority of the people," Chavez once wrote. Critics have described his musical compositions as "highly original," characterized by "great vitality," and an "authentic expression of the rebirth of culture in 20th-century Mexico...
...picture, and that I did so just recently with the knowledge that it was to be used along with your comments on my opinion in the nudist case. You have deceived your readers; you have portrayed me as a tasteless, witless and publicity-hungry exhibitionist; you have done a vast disservice to any fair public concept of the dignity and responsibility of our courts and the earnest hard-working men who sit on them. You have literally stripped me in public and have forced upon me, a justice of a supreme court, the highly distasteful and undignified task of publicly...
Despite Typhoon Ida's depredations, Japan's rice farmers were counting their blessings last week. By the time Ida struck, the vast bulk of Japan's rice had already been harvested, and peasant pockets were ajingle with the proceeds of the nation's fourth bumper crop (400 million bushels) in as many years...
Imposed Blessing. For centuries the inhabitants of Ichijo, like the vast majority of Japanese peasants, have lived in tiny wood-and-wattle cottages heated only by a fire pit sunk in the earthen floor. In years when the rice crop was good, Ichijo's farmers eked out a bare existence. When the crop failed, they sold their daughters to the city brothels. Steeped in this tradition, one of Ichijo's wrinkled, kimono-clad elders reflected with horror last week on Mrs. Sato's latest acquisition. "Indecent extravagance," he moaned...
...that was in 1843. The Americans who have followed General Napier into Asia are far more apt to say peccavi without intending a pun. Vast numbers of well-meaning Americans are instantly ready to feel guilty and inadequate about their nation's role among the "underdeveloped" peoples. This book is a slashing, oversimplified, often silly and yet not-to-be-ignored attack on the men and women who have taken up the white man's burden for the U.S. in Southeast Asia...