Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party, a reception at the stadium to meet the white colony, a reception at the race track to meet the natives, a garden party at the Governor's mansion, an inspection of the guard of honor. At Gingindhlovu next day there had been more receptions, at Eshowe a vast war dance of 5,000 screaming, booming Zulu warriors and their womenfolk, naked to the waist. When Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret started to smile at the Zulus, Elizabeth reproved her with a headshake. At Durban, on Thursday, there were more addresses of welcome, displays of homage, a civic...
...Duke's house in Piccadilly there were always a host of little cousins, lords and honorables for playmates. Devoted to horses (she pretended her legs were a team and called them Flycatcher and Harmony), she had her own pony at four. Her backyards were the family's vast estates: Victoria's Balmoral, Birkhall, her parents house in the Highlands; and Windsor Castle...
...Americans were-that was a question not only for posterity. For in the vast and gloomy drama which is currently occupying the world's stage, Americans (whether they liked it or not) were playing the lead. How did the new stars appear to the worldwide audience? Part of the crucial answer could actually be found in the theater. American lives, loves, liberties and laughter were being exhibited everywhere on Europe's battered boards, from London's Globe to Rome's Quirino. European plays about Americans, and Europeans' reaction to the flood of imported U.S. plays...
...Life of a Great Sinner was the title that Dostoevsky gave to a vast novel for which he made reams of notes but which he never managed to write. Instead, members of A Great Sinner's huge projected cast of characters kept escaping prematurely from their creator's notebooks and showing up in his completed works. Some of them became prominent people in The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov; a few (including the Great Sinner himself, in his young manhood) became part of A Raw Youth, least known of Dostoevsky's major novels. Published first...
...Congress should heed the President's appeal for aid to Greece, but not on the terms he has proposed. Instead, our vast resources should be offered to the United Nations for use as they see fit to stabilize Greece. Although all of the decisive powers reside within the Security Council, nevertheless the presence of the veto power in the Security Council, as well as the absence of the neutral influence of smaller countries not directly concerned with the situation in the eastern Mediterranean suggest that the General Assembly would be more suitable as the supervisory body. (The planned purpose...