Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost nine months of relevant and irrelevant wrangling, of sneering and shouting by defense attorneys, of contradictory testimony from Reds, ex-Reds, agents of the FBI, of high excitement and vast boredom came to an end then in an instant of dead hush. Pretty Mrs. Thelma Dial, wife of a musician, foreman of the jury, looked straight in front of her and said: "We find each and every one of the defendants guilty...
...seal the grand alliance, Lewis proposed, the U.M.W. and nine affiliates of the A.F.L. should chip in $250,000 a week each to help Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers ward off "a vast and barbaric attack" on their union...
Getaway Money. As Biographer Taylor sees it, Fields's whole life was shaped and distorted by his childhood experiences. "Fields's early grapples with things like hunger, frost, bartenders and police gave him a vast, watchful suspicion of society and its patterns." As a comedian, he appealed to the streak of fundamental pessimism lurking in everybody. In grownups, children and animals he always expected the worst-and he was usually right. Audiences found it uproarious...
...Bible still holds its long-undisputed place at the top of the bestseller list, but to a vast proportion of its modern buyers, it remains a closed book. Texas newspaper Publisher Houston Harte (the San Angelo evening Standard and Standard-Times) often wondered why, especially considering that the Bible is full of dramatic stories and fascinating characters. When Presbyterian Harte asked his friends & neighbors, they agreed that biblical characters are awe-inspiring, all right, but that somehow they are just not like people in real life. Bible-Lover Harte began to think about how to make them more...
...vast Irish castle, where scores of beady-eyed peacocks strut and scream about the lawns and terraces and a moldering stone wall shuts off the outside world, an aged English butler is dying. From time to time he groans out the name of an unknown loved one-"Ellen, Ellen...