Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparatively few. On Christmas Day, William George Dampier, a 48-year-old Indianapolis milk delivery man, would watch a heart-warming scene: |iis five children, exclaiming happily over presents in the front room of his warm, frame house. Like millions of other U.S. families, the Dampiers would eat a vast and savory dinner, look forward to the long holiday before the New Year...
...Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
...thousands who have heard her can testify, Miss Anderson's singing of spirituals is unforgettable. She stands simply, but with impressive presence, beside the piano. She closes her eyes (she always sings with her eyes closed). Her voice pours out, soft, vast, enveloping...
...they were created in direct answer to the Psalmist's question: How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? For the land in which the slaves found themselves was strange beyond the . fact that it was foreign. It was a nocturnal land of vast, shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork...
Molotov said that trouble over the veto, in this instance, had been due to "misunderstanding." But obviously his new attitude was a vast improvement over Vishinsky's stand of the previous week. Of course Russia still can, and probably will, make plenty of trouble over the formulation of treaties...