Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liability. In Manila, owners of the vast, inflammable Yangco Market gave one reason why they had not had a fire in 47 years: they forbade the stall proprietors to take out fire insurance...
...premiers (Churchill himself, France's Paul Reynaud and Paul Ramadier), but none was present in any official capacity and none traveled on government funds. There were exiles from Spain and from the French zone of Germany; from Red-blighted Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Finland. The vast majority of all delegates were shabby; frayed cuffs and soiled collars were conspicuous...
...basic substance of Homecoming, like the base of a perfume, has a terrible smell; but to many moviegoers, the end product will seem quite pleasant. It is superskillfully custom-blended to please the vast public of Gable & Turner. World War II, reduced for long stretches to a faint, faraway hum, appears to have been just an old sweet song...
Nightmare in a Wonderland. In an atmosphere of uncomprehending misery, the platoon is ordered on a reconnaissance patrol on the far side of the island, over the vast peaks of the Watamai Mountains. It is in itself an incident in the war superior to most war fiction, the patrol through a wonderland of grass growing higher than the heads of the men, spiders, and endless spider webs, gnats, buzzing silence, rain and sunlight, golden sand and indigo trees-a nightmare in which one after another is killed. What deepens the irony is that the campaign is successful without the benefit...
...History. Both made contributions-local studies and biographies-to that vast unread library of India which hundreds of Englishmen, have written for two centuries. As the years passed, they noted that a new Indian history was growing under their eyes. The slapdash, casual rule of the old East India Company "nabobs" was being tightened into the more efficient but far more inflexible system of imperial government. India was dividing into two worlds-that of the alien ruler and that of the native ruled; and day by day it grew more difficult for men like Henry to "belong to both...