Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is a very testing time ... I believe that the world is going through one of its vast secular revolutions ... a switchover in human affairs such as the world has not seen since Roman days . . . It is the duty of the Western democracies to ensure that this crisis . . . does not lead to the destruction of the civilization, the culture, and the standard of living which is our heritage...
Last week, greying, hoarse-voiced, 58-year-old Frank Costello was fast becoming a figure of U.S. legend. Millions of newspaper readers considered him a kind of master criminal, shadowy as a ghost and cunning as Satan, who ruled a vast, mysterious and malevolent underworld and laughed lazily...
...government had expected to get. Last week the Chancellor and the Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week's foreign-policy debate the French Assembly might try to whittle down the Paris decisions. But, as Konrad Adenauer put it, "The German Federal Republic has this day taken a great step forward...
...craftsmanship and imagination, some of Fabergé's works rivaled those of Benvenuto Cellini, but unlike Cellini, Fabergé had been a 100% eclectic with a vast history of luxury arts to borrow from and exploit. While his best works were magnificently unique, his worst looked like refugees from a dime store bric-a-brac counter...
...whim seized him, in a tent in the desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned one such card to Sir Osbert. "They say the President is a Perfect Dear...