Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discrimination because of race, color or creed and the use of force to implement the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. But the Democrats merely "recognize the Supreme Court . . . as one of the three constitutional . . . branches of the Federal Government," and note that its decisions "have brought consequences of vast importance to our Nation as a whole." The Republicans "accept" the decisions, and say that public-school discrimination must be "progressively eliminated . . . with all deliberate speed...
...need") was handwritten in green ink; there were peculiarities in the m's and r's. As one crew of agents set out to track down the supplier of the type of paper that the note was written on, scores of agents started to examine a vast variety of public records. First, they vainly sorted through 75,000 fingerprint cards of people in the area with police records. Then they branched out, pored over voting registrations, auto-license applications, court records. In six weeks' time they picked over more than 2,000,000 different documents...
Beside an ice-blue lake deep in the glacier-scoured hills of central Quebec, spinning diamond drills last week probed and measured a great new underground treasure trove. In Chibougamau, 320 miles north of Montreal, the discovery of a vast deposit of copper ore has set off a lively boom in the wilderness and assured the free world an important new source of a scarce and strategic metal...
...biggest newcomer, Giant Step (Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.), will broaden the financial horizon for young people (ages 7-17) with vast knowledge. Top prize: a four-year scholarship to a college of the contestant's choice and, as a plum for graduating seniors, a junket around the world...
Time after time they were nearly overrun. The vast patience of British troops held them fast in their rain-filled holes. When relief troops of the British 2nd Division finally arrived, Colonel Laverty marched out with a ragged half of his battalion. Arthur Campbell, who was among the relieving troops, saw.the survivors' pride and misery, and resolved to write their story. Campbell (who won a Military Cross later for gallantry) has written one of the great stories of World War II, an account of unmatched hardship and bravery, ranking with Guadalcanal, Tarawa. Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At Kohima...