Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm, low key persuasiveness should help him at the Pentagon, but Wilson points to something else in Murphree's background as an equal asset: a quarter-century of effective service in the vast Standard hierarchy. Such a man, Wilson reasons, should not "get frustrated too quick in this big place." Then, with characteristic Wilson candor, the Defense Secretary made Murphree's position of authority clear. "I think if he gets into a jam between the services," Wilson said, "I will be in it with...
Rubens once remarked: "My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast or various, has ever surpassed my courage." Of himself as a diplomat: "I assure you that in public affairs I am the most dispassionate man in the world, except where my property and person are concerned ... I regard the whole world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere." Even so sharp-eyed an English observer as Charles I's Ambassador, the Earl of Carlisle, wrote home from the Continent: "He made mee believe that nothing but good intentions and sincerity have...
Through a London that was "a vast sink of sweated female labor," the ladies of easy virtue rode through Hyde Park in such splendid carriages or on such fine horses that the popular euphemism for rich prostitutes of the time was "pretty horse-breakers." One, Lizzie Howard, became the mistress of Napoleon III, and a French countess, and died a rich woman. Cora Pearl (born Crouch and no kin to Author Pearl), one of the few prostitutes to win mention in the Dictionary of National Biography, also made good in Paris. The book's title is provided by Catherine...
...trucks roll up with everything from fresh celery to fresh caviar, from pineapple to pretzels. Last week McLane launched his new est project: to convert Europe to the short-order diner. McLane hopes to install his own infra-red cookers in some 6,000 small cafes, thus create a vast new market for his precooked hot dogs, cheeseburgers and U.S.-style barbecue...
...news summaries and incendiary comment with the hypnotic insistence of a kind of political muezzin. It alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming broadcasts in Swahili to Kenya (where it supported the Mau Mau), Somaliland and Uganda. Explained the Voice: "Egypt's geographical position requires her to work...