Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...
Next day, in Los Angeles, Marshall stated a truth of which many Americans had become more or less keenly aware. Said Marshall: "No nation in modern history has ever occupied a position of responsibility comparable to that of this country today nor has any country had such vast responsibility thrust upon it in so short a time." How well would the U.S. carry out its responsibility...
...voyages of Columbus had a very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
...Brief Glow. The horrors of Beria's camps and inquisitions have been told by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky, by Victor Kravchenko and Vladimir Tchernavin. These atrocities are so vast that, like Himmler's corpse factories, they are almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, a smaller, gentler story gives a notion of life in the police state...
...master plan must proceed anew from the basic premise that diplomacy and power politics only reflect what occurs within nations. The immediate danger from Russia is political rather than military. It is within nations that we are losing and it is within nations that the vast store of energy we would throw into a military potential must find application in the political and economic battle. This past year our support in the internal wars has gone to an unrelated and opportunistically-determined assortment of forces. Russian expansionism's basis for triumph has been its ability to force a choice between...