Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more powerful TNT'' (as Lawrence put it), to destroy limited military objectives rather than to contaminate whole provinces and nations. Beyond that, the meaning of the scientists' report was that the U.S. is approaching a major development in atomic power for peace: how to produce the vast energy of H-bomb fusion-perhaps controlled energy-by means other than using radioactive, atomic fission to set off the fusion process...
...nothing. Then he approached bluntly and announced: "I have decided I want to marry you." "I am sorry," said Francesca. "It cannot be." Stupefied, the mayor went to his uncle the priest. "I don't understand," he said. "How could any girl refuse?" The old priest inhaled a vast nostrilful of snuff. "Women," he said at last, "don't like to be wooed. They like to be conquered...
...words for which one is willing to die-'liberty' and 'independence.' I know that many French sincerely believe that the Algerian people want to continue living in French territory, but I know the Algerians ... In Algeria, believe me, the fellagha are supported by the vast majority of the Algerian people...
Despite (or perhaps because of) the quality of his collection, Gulbenkian could never find what he considered a suitable home for it. At one time or other, he owned half a dozen town and country places, including a huge London house, a 150-acre estate near Deauville and a vast Paris mansion. But he was rarely in any of his houses, knocked about instead from one plush hotel to another, seemed incapable of settling on a permanent place to hang his hat-or pictures...
...camel, jeep and helicopter, thousands of French geologists have long been prospecting the Sahara's vast lunar landscapes, some 1,000 miles from north to south and 3,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Sudan. Last week the government totted up what they found...