Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists. No tool has been left unused, from woolly-minded American officials to former Goebbels hirelings and Nazi youth leaders. Occasionally Soviet organization has not been equal to its task, as when the collapse of Russian Army discipline in the moment of victory resulted in a vast, hideous carnival of raping and looting. But the long objective, of transforming Germany into a decisive westward extension of the Soviet system, has never been changed for an instant...
...only six weeks (TIME, July 8) 55-year-old General Littlejohn has used his vast energy to clean house. Regulations were often too complex to understand. WAA was months behind in its paper work. Inventories were inaccurate and out-of-date. Littlejohn promptly called in all WAA directors and representatives for a three-day what-is-wrong conference. Result was the tabulation of 120 problems the organization had inherited. The General gave his staff a month to correct them. And property began to move faster...
...must be admitted, of course, that the Vatican is faced with some very great difficulties in any effort it may make to cooperate with the Protestants ... in even so vast a cause.... Its solemn claim to be the exclusive and infallible authority in all things spiritual ... [is] a hurdle which only a holy passion for the security of the world can enable it to surmount...
...insists upon living in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, and is consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries." In the mechanized 20th Century, the land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa is busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience...
...interest in the News. The Colonel, already busy trying to run the Republican Party in Illinois (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), boomed: "Well, I should say not! I've got enough troubles to watch out here!" As if to underline his point, in his Tribune last week he reminded his vast Midwest audience-at 1,075,000 it is second only to the News's-that he still regards the alien East as wicked and full of European influences...