Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rayburn had been setting Shivers up for the kill ever since 1952, when Shivers bolted his party and led Texas into the Eisenhower column. Picking his instrument of revenge. Mistuh Sam threw his vast party influence behind his longtime protege, Johnson, and labored mightily to build Johnson's prestige. Rayburn's plans were almost wrecked when Johnson suffered a heart attack last year. But Allan Shivers was in trouble too: he was serving a third full term in a state that likes its governors to retire gracefully after two; his administration was rocked by land and insurance scandals...
With the aid of a large staff of assistants, the colonel passed his time conducting vast experiments in genetics, buying up old lots of abandoned express packages on the chance that they might contain something interesting, filling his house with furniture that hung on chains from the ceiling, and-from a special chair suspended from a huge tree before a great, open-air fireplace-delivering daily the hell he promised. Mrs. Fabyan contented herself with the relatively quieter companionship of a free-roving chimpanzee and a small private zoo of bears, wolves and coyotes...
...news from crewmen on cargo vessels plying Siberia's 2,800-mile-long Yenisei River: the Kremlin was downgrading late Dictator Stalin and rectifying the abuses of his regime. Counting themselves noteworthy victims of Stalinist repression, the prisoners (working on a project to divert the Yenisei into a vast inland sea for irrigating arid Kazakstan) saw a new day dawning...
Under South Africa's racist laws, the country's 12½ million citizens are being inscribed as white, colored (mixed blood) or native in a vast racial register known as the Book of Life. The government's eventual goal is to shuffle them into separate communities. Last month, as offi cials began enforcement of a 1950 law forbidding members of one race to move into quarters formerly occupied by another race, the first of what may be thousands of little neighborhood tragedies unfolded in a Johannesburg court...
Even though he figured to be beaten, lean Jim Bailey, 26, spent a nervous night, and scarcely slept. Calm and confident, Landy, 26, took it easy, loafed through a set of practice miles early on the morning of the race. He got to Los Angeles' vast Coliseum ready to go. Bailey was bushed, and, it seemed, past caring. He stared moodily at the crowd, had a tough time working up to racing pitch...