Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aviation and produced the Radford Report, a skillful survey of the delivery, combat use, rotation, repair and relocation of aircraft. Brought back to the Pacific in November 1944, when Japanese naval forces were dwindling fast, Radford was appointed commander of Carrier Division 6 with Admiral Marc Mitscher's vast Task Force 58. There he pasted Japanese shore installations from the South China Sea all the way north to Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan. His airmen called him the "pilots' admiral" because they knew that he could do himself anything he demanded of his air groups-and he knew...
...positions in the bureaucracy. An obvious reason for this was that the Jews were beyond question reliable "anti-Fascists." A more sinister accusation is that in Poland as in Hungary, Stalin deliberately placed Jews in high positions in order to have convenient scapegoats at a later date for the vast depredations he planned in Poland...
...refused either to affirm or deny another rumor which had the committee offering an interim appointment to Josh Williams, currently the Crimson back-field coach. Williams was unavailable for comment last night. According to the Boston press, Williams, who is known to have the endorsement of the vast majority of the present football squad, had turned down an interim appointment, preferring instead a more permanent situation...
...such remarks are taboo by the chief brainstormer. who clangs a schoolmarm's bell at him. Anyone is free to "hitchhike" on an idea, i.e., pick it up and improve on it. The result is usually that anywhere from 60 to 150 rapid-fire ideas are suggested. The vast majority are usually as impractical as the suggestion by one woman that autos have locomotive-type cowcatchers to nudge pedestrians out of the way. But if later evaluation shows that half a dozen of the ideas are potential solutions to the problem, the brainstorm session is considered a howling success...
Reporting on the conditions in Communist China, the Nieman fellow said that "although there is a totalitarian regime with complete control on every level of society, there has been a vast improvement of economic conditions and, in the past year, a quiet liberalization movement reflecting an eased world situation...