Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...
...Representatives of the fanatical Government minority, they rule the vast, inert, defenseless Russian masses, as all minorities must, chiefly by means of an omnipresent secret police and its informers, by intricate economic controls that make every Russian dependent on the Government for his livelihood, and by hope-hope for a better future, which never comes, but which beckons with each new Five-Year Plan from the disastrous present. But when these controls creak under the enormous task, purges are a summary corrective-at once a technique of dictatorship and a reflex of fear...
...R.C.A.F. announced that a survey party, flying low over the vast, frigid Foxe Basin in the Arctic Ocean, had rediscovered the Spicer Islands, first found by a Massachusetts whaler in 1897 and then "lost." Flight Lieut. J. F. Drake of Vancouver said that runways could be constructed on two of the marshy islands but that they would be ". . . hazardous operational bases...
...University, Dean Buck, continued, is "a tremendously vast and complex structure neither ivory tower nor wartime workshop...
...Student Council will "represent" the largest undergraduate body in the history of the College. University Hall will rely on this group for an accurate appraisal of undergraduate opinion on housing, tutorial, and other pressing problems. In addition, the individual student looks to the Council for wise administration of the vast sums publicly subscribed to by its Student Council Fund. But as the average undergraduate quietly subscribes his seven dollars to the Council, he should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice he actually...