Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, at the height of his career, Manolete was drawn into a passionate squabble. Other Spanish bullfighters, jealous of the vast amounts of money Manolete made in Mexico, wanted to keep Mexican bullfighters from appearing in Spain. A young, rising matador, Luis Miguel Dominguin, led the Spanish closed-shop faction. Once he threatened to run Manolete out of the ring...
...bills after a revolution at home: "It costs $64 a day to live; it costs extra to laugh." Some delegates had derived their chief pleasure from watching (no admission charge) a red-white-&-blue ping-pong ball dancing atop a single-jet fountain in the hotel's vast (500-ft.-long) main corridor...
Leonard Roach, a Los Angeles County supervisor, has been touting his county's vast (105,000-seat) Coliseum as a big-league park. But he has neglected to point out that the right-field seats would be only 290 feet away from the plate, and balls hit to left field would have to be mailed in. Also, parking space is precious, some lots charging up to $5 a car. And concessions in the Coliseum, without which no club could exist, are already leased...
...girl I knew was brought up by 'higher thinking' parents to regard God as perfect 'substance.' In later life she realized that this had actually led her to think of Him as something like a vast tapioca pudding. (To make matters worse, she disliked tapioca.) We may feel ourselves quite safe from this degree of absurdity, but we are mistaken. If a man watches his own mind, I believe he will find that what profess to be specially advanced or philosophic conceptions of God are, in his thinking, always accompanied by vague images which, if inspected...
...much of the spending is not being done in such noticeably big pieces. Smaller companies in almost every other industry are making small but widespread changes in the industrial landscape. They are building extensions to existing plants or raising new ones in a vast scramble for spacious positions close to power, labor, raw materials, markets, or cheaper tax rates...