Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite the landing of foreign troops, despite perhaps as many as 2,000 killed since May, despite an economic depression brought on by the strife, Lebanese politicians were still loath to put aside their petty ambitions and prejudices for the settlement that the vast bulk of their countrymen wanted. At week's end Premier Saeb Salam, self-styled "leader of Beirut rebels," who keeps a sign on his sandbagged command post, "Appointments 9 to 1 and 4 to 7," announced that the elections ought not to be held as long as Chamoun remained President, and "aggressor" troops remained...
...vast British tropical colony of Nigeria, the back-country people of the Eastern Region have long been a troublesome lot to officialdom. Mostly half-naked farmers, they take unusual delight in staging bloody campaigns against vaccinations, and in setting schools on fire. Each time the police must come in to restore order. But of all the assignments that the police have undertaken, none has produced such eerie results as the search of the house of Chief Nwiboko Obodo...
...positive thinking" and "official Washington piety," says Dr. Miller, the justifications are "sincerity" and the vast ''numbers of people who respond favorably." What Americans are driving toward "is a shallow and implicitly compulsory common creed ... It is epitomized in the patriotic-religious pronouncements of the President and the Joint Chiefs' effort to formulate an ideology ('militant liberty') for us all." It is "a religion-in-general, superficial and syncretistic, destructive of the profounder elements of faith...
...C.E.D. charts seem to be more proof of the correctness of the Administration's course in opposing loud congressional demands, and some by businessmen, for heavy tax cuts and a vast program of Government spending. According to C.E.D.'s graphs, neither course would necessarily have accelerated the recovery. Despite 1954's tax cut, personal income took 14 months to regain and hold lost ground. This time personal income is almost back to pre-recession levels in ten months, without any reduction in taxes. At the start of the 1949 recession, Government spending was sharply increased, yet employment...
...realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror-stricken of it-proof, perhaps, of T. S. Eliot's gloomy prediction that the world will...