Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ellington had contributed something valuable to all mankind-like George Washington Carver-your selection would have been unassailable. But you have a great responsibility to the vast readership you reach. Just because Ellington and Armstrong and our rock 'n' roll nitwits have a following among people who are moved by the noises of blah-blah and nothingness, there is no reason why you should publicize their worthless causes...
...Plan of Battle. With the help of Russian technicians, the Red Chinese have drawn up an ambitious plan to straddle the Yellow and its tributaries with a vast network of dams. The first phase will take 15 years and cost $1.8 billion; the entire scheme will not be completed for at least half a century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived...
...attempting to achieve the Messianic promise of the Jews' return to Israel through force. Toynbee's sentiments-and scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee's vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as "fossilized relics" fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival...
...Chance. Last week, still believing in his plan and still unable to keep silent Zarchin, 59, citizen of Israel, happily checked the calculations of another test project that may prove his point. The Israeli government had given him $270,000 to build a pilot plant in the Negev the vast, parched area in southern Israel. The plant will use water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea. "We are too poor a country to reject dreams," said one official. Only men who do nothing are always right...
Last week, after five years of litigation, Mrs. Mirylees was in possession of the vast, decaying, 18th century mansion called Nanteos in Cardigan, Wales, and the most precious part of the Nanteos estate is a crumbled, blackened wooden cup held together by wire, which, according to one legend, is the Holy Grail itself, from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and in which Joseph of Arimathea caught some of His blood.* Other tradition has it that the Holy Cup of Nanteos is not the Grail but a vessel later made from the wood of the Cross. During Henry VIII...