Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger of using "freedom" without restrictions, and all this is based on a mixture of emotional and naive attitudes of the American people. There is great danger that this overemphasis of "freedom" will bring more anarchy to many national peoples in Asia and Africa and broaden a vast field for Communistic activities...
...Egyptian government proclaimed its determination to speedily "Egyptianize" the administration of all the vast British and French holdings in Egypt, including banks, buildings, oil companies, schools. About the only deterrent that might keep Egypt from grabbing all the Anglo-French investments in Egypt (estimated from $200 million to $500 million) is the knowledge that Britain has nearly $300 million of frozen Egyptian assets...
...Lady in the Dark, was carefully nourished in Sam Goldwyn's Hollywood hothouse, and had his own radio show. For ten years of playing to packed houses, he never ventured to play the biggest house of all-television. But Entertainer Kaye found reason to want TV's vast stage as much as TV wanted him, and the engagement was made. This week came the marriage, and a happy event...
Died. Emil Georg Buehrle, 66, multimillionaire art collector and sole owner of Switzerland's vast armaments-making Oerlikon Machine Tool Works; of a heart attack; in Zurich. German-born Weapons-Maker Buehrle, reputedly Switzerland's richest man, got his firm blacklisted during World War II by peddling his 20-mm. antiaircraft gun to the Axis...
Guthrie has been praised for showing the thoughts of his character which is a happy contrast to the majority of Western fiction writers. However, the vast amounts of space he devotes to his characters' thinking adds little to an understanding of these personalities or of their environment. Guthrie's utilization of thought-process reminds one of the old men he describes in the opening sentence who "would sit and smoke and let a word fall and pause to hear the echoes of it as if they owned all time to speak their little pieces...