Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than a superficial one-sided analysis of the blood-soaked scene. For two centuries the British exploited and perpetuated the medieval illiteracy and intense poverty of our masses, by stifling all industrial and educational development to the unavoidable minimum. Rigidly enforced legislative measures magnified petty local differences to a vast national scale, where Hindus and Moslems secured desperately needed government jobs mainly on a religion basis, till in the ensuing bitterness and frustration a power maniac like Jinnah could suddenly leap out of the shadows and, screaming wildly, lead hundreds of thousands over the chasm's edge. . . . We have...
...doctor makes a point of not coddling his vast, loyal audience. "Doctor, does it do any good in rheumatism to carry a potato in the pocket?" asked a listener last week. "A fatheaded question," replied the amiable doctor. "Now I ask you-do you really think that changes in the joints, deep-seated changes, can be effected by a spud in your jacket pocket...
...there was still any doubt that U.S. farmers were holding back vast amounts of grain for even higher prices, it was dispelled last week by Thomas D. Campbell, the world's largest wheat grower...
...Question. How to dispose of the vast amounts of radioactive waste that will accumulate as more & more U.S. atomic ovens go into operation? Soon it may become too dangerous to discharge waste into the air (as the few existing laboratories do now). Radioactive atoms cannot be safely buried in the ground; they spread widely and might contaminate plants, food, etc. They cannot be thrown into the sea; they would poison the fish, be sucked up in ships' boilers, evaporate and fall in radioactive rains...
...spread of Communism threatens to perpetuate the evils of tyranny by enforcing the rule of a small minority party on the vast majority throughout the Balkans." said Mr. Markham. He added that the only methods capable of resolving the uncertainty and division of the nations must come from an extension of wisdom, humility, honesty, and kindness all of which totalitarianism poisons by its method and ideology...