Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stassen's backers and many another G.O.P. liberal insisted that their boy was hardly scratched. Butler, they argued, had a vast, statewide organization, was backed by all top party leaders, had had a great edge on Griswold from the beginning. Also Butler claimed he was not really an isolationist...
...legitimized the de facto Soviet sovereignty over the Kushk district, a remote corner of the world where Afghanistan, Iran and the U.S.S.R. meet among the high pastures, vast pistachio groves and wild tribesmen who live around the ancient Oxus River.* The treaty just negotiated between Moscow and Kabul scraps two 1921 clauses which granted the people of Kushk the right to choose their own masters by plebiscite, and stipulated Russian financial and material aid to Afghanistan...
Five or ten years ago when Louis Prima was still involved in the unprofitable business of playing jazz, he was no more important than any other "paesano" to the vast Italian population of this country. But just two weeks ago, when the agents of WHCN went in town to get the New Orleans-born trumpet man for their Jazz Orgy, the stage entrance was literally jammed with enthusiastic autograph seekers from Hanover Street...
...plot revolves around an attempt by the powers of Evil to take over the earth. Evil's chief terrestrial representatives: a brace of devils (appropriately named John Wither and Professor Frost) who administer the vast N.I.C.E., an organization to handle postwar England's technology and scientific development-ostensibly for the benefit of the common man. The champions of Good: a handful of rather painfully decent English types under the leadership and protection of the trilogy's hero, Dr. Ransom. In Lewis' sure hands the story becomes well-written, fast-paced satirical fantasy...
Puzzle for Pan Am. But this was only a crumb compared to the vast bite the President had taken out of Pan Am's onetime monopoly in Latin America. For the first time, Pan Am has competition from U.S. lines the full length of the rich Latin American travel area...