Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boldly redefine the opponents of Communism as an isolated, retreating minority. To the Asian nations they offer the comradeship of backwardness, the fraternity of poverty, the communality of agricultural nations seeking to industrialize themselves, and sympathetic stirring of old resentments against their colonial pasts. Against this new campaign, a vast outpouring of Western dollars to Asia will not be enough. The free world now confronts an old enemy in a new guise and a new place, and it will have to find new responses...
These are figures that stagger the imagination. In no previous war, revolution* or human holocaust, either in the days of Tamerlane or in the time of Hitler, have so many people been destroyed in so short a period. Because it is hard for the mind to visualize so vast a slaughter in human terms, the Communists have been able to reap an advantage from the very size of their funeral pyre: many Westerners, finding the monstrous incredible, cannot see the blood on the hand of pretended friendship proffered by Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung...
...Communist world, which had not been able to prevent this vast upheaval, at least had a duty to understand it. The triumph was not the victory of the "Uncle Mao" of Peking propaganda, the benign statesman who has charmed such outstanding humanists as Attlee, Nehru and U Nu. It was the triumph of terror...
...Food & Drug Administration officials have found traces of penicillin in 3% to 11½% of milk samples tested at random across the U.S. Source: milk taken from cows too soon after treatment for udder inflammation. These tiny amounts are not dangerous to the vast majority of people, but could prove fatal to the few who are "exquisitely sensitive" to penicillin. Farmers, says the FDA, must not sell milk produced the first three days after treatment ends...
...afraid. As in Remembrance, Proust starts his novel with the hero's memories of having to go to bed as a boy-"the wretched candle must be put out and he lie there . . . abandoned . . . to the horrible, the shapeless suffering which, little by little, would grow as vast as solitude." But Proust, with youthful naivete, tried to protect his own thin skin and his mother's feelings by pretending that he was not writing autobiography. In an introduction to Jean Santeuil, he declared the book to be the posthumous work of a novelist named "C." and a faith...