Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific northwest, GOP candidate Governor Dewey charted a vast development of natural resources to give America "more power to wage the peace." Dewey's running mate Governor Warren entered New England, declaring that government must be revitalized at the state and local level...
...Beck is not satisfied with his vast feudal barony beyond the Rockies. He is reversing the historic admonition of Horace Greeley. He is coming East. Already he has left large footprints in the Indiana cornfields and on the seat of Dan Tobin's pants...
Even though the vast majority of Israelis were shocked by the crime, world public opinion would link the assassination with the long record of gangsterism, terrorism and almost insanely violent propaganda which had become associated with Israel's struggle for independence, and which moderate Zionists seemed unable to stop. In other cases, propaganda had excused or glossed over the crimes of the Jewish extremists by alleging "imperialism" on the part of the British or charging worse atrocities to the Arabs. In Bernadotte's case there was no excuse to make. He was obviously a good man who sought...
...King's Own Mounted Regiment (which has not had to fight a battle in 134 years). In 1928 he married Estelle Romaine Manville (of Johns-Manville). He was 33, she 24. They moved into Dragongarden, a villa in Stockholm's diplomatic quarter, surrounded by old oaks, vast lawns, and a canal where all the Bernadottes went skating. Together with his two sons, Folke and Bertil (two others died), the Count grew into an enthusiastic Boy Scout, was frequently seen in Scout garb at international Scout encampments...
...drawings by the old masters . . . but his collection of prints contained a working library of ideas and iconographical suggestions. Moreover his passion for antique busts was rivaled only by his interest in weapons and ethnological specimens from America and the Indies. His paintings further show that he kept a vast costumery; among these were the magnificent vestments . . . which appear in his studies of Jewish rabbis and in the Biblical scenes...