Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unified Germany. The next day, America's crack occupation troops bade their commander a military farewell. On the vast parade field at Grafenwohr, once a training ground for Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, 11,000 U.S. soldiers snapped and wheeled through a 90-minute review. A battery of 105-mm. guns barked a 17-gun salute. From a jeep the 52-year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then...
...trouble, he said, centered in the vast "B" Building of the 1,096-acre Rouge plant, where assembly lines normally spill out between 330 and 350 Fords every eight-hour working day. For several months, Reuther said, Ford had been speeding up the assembly line without consulting the union or adding more workers. Reuther called this "an unsolved grievance." Ford denied the union's charges, suggested arbitration as provided by the contract. Reuther countered that the arbitrator would have to be "part doctor, engineer and astrologer...
Many Britons thought there was another way. A British leather-goods manufacturer, like a Drake of commerce, last week cried to his griping colleagues: "How can we not sell in the States? Remember that vast country has half the world's spending money in its pockets. Go out there, man, and get some...
Flanked by Lady Beecham, he turned up at a reception, received a 15-lb. cake from the U.S.'s RCA Victor, replied to a toast by apologizing for not having anything cutting to say ("It is only before vast audiences that I let myself...
...Marvels, Magick . . . Apparitions . . . Second Sighted Men," along with an undeveloped penchant for scientific research. As a child he saw the old-fashioned shepherd leading his flock with a flute; in his old age he dreamed of emigrating to the "delicious Countrey" of New York, where the people "have such vast Snowes that they are forced to digg their wayes out of their houses, else they would be stifled...