Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel could not touch the mural. It was government property, in charge of the President's committee on mural painting, which happened to consist of Rivera himself, and two sympathetic colleagues: Orozco and Siqueiros. But there was no law, the hotel decided, against veiling the mural with a vast white cloth...
Died. Theodor Morell, 62, Hitler's personal physician; of double pneumonia; at Tegern See, Bavaria. A high-pressure quack who had been a VD expert for Berlin's whores, he made a fortune out of his relationship with the Führer, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs and plain colored water into his boss, undermined his resistance, helped speed the physical breakdown which nearly crippled Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich...
...vast organism of the city is as helplessly dependent on its servants as an incubator baby. In a single day it uses over one billion gallons of water, imports 23,500 tons of food, spews out one billion gallons of sewage and over 8,000 tons of garbage. In winter it needs 20 million gallons of fuel oil. Six million people travel daily on its 237 miles of subway and elevated lines, 1½% million on its surface transport lines. Some 400,000 commuters stream into Manhattan daily from the suburbs of Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester County and Connecticut...
...Wong Wen-hao once wrote a book called Earthquake Regions of China. Last week he needed all his seismographic skill, for he was named Premier of the Chinese Republic-a vast earthquake region crumbling under the triple temblors of civil war, inflation and mass discontent...
Besides their two columns a week apiece, the team adds to its income (upwards of $30,000) by turning out half a dozen magazine articles a year. (In 1937 the doctors sent Joe to Johns Hopkins to reduce from a vast 240 Ibs. to a neater 175. To pay the bill, he smartly dashed off a piece on reducing, sold it to the Saturday Evening Post...