Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...residence in a gleaming white palace on the shores of Lake Como, with a dashing Italian hussar named Bergami as pro tem king of her heart. Caroline's philandering might well have gone unnoticed by Prinney, who was then Prince Regent, except that when she returned to London, vast crowds of the common people, who hated him and his gross excesses, cordially claimed Caroline as their own and vowed: "We'll make the Prince love you before we've done with...
...Mediterranean, has nurtured six millenniums of civilization in its valley and broad delta. But its trapped waters are not sufficient today to sustain the leaping population of modern Egypt. One of the most publicized projects of Premier Gamal Nasser's revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser's high dam: $1.5 billion...
Advance-guard painting in America is hell-bent for outer space. It has rocketed right out of the realms of common sense and common experience. That does not necessarily make it bad. But it does leave the vast bulk of onlookers earthbound, with mouths agape and eyes reflecting a mixture of puzzlement, vexation, contempt. A cursory study of advance-guard painting gives rise to the conclusion that it consists, like the Mock Turtle's arithmetic, of "Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision." It is wild, woolly, willful. But nothing has only one side, and negatives cannot sum up America...
Germany has built up a dollar reserve of $1.3 billion, balanced its budget, and expects to bank a $600 million surplus this year. But its good showing was possible chiefly because of vast grants of U.S. aid, and because Germany spent relatively little for rearmament (see FOREIGN NEWS). In an effort to liberalize foreign trade, Belgium lifted virtually all exchange restrictions on the franc and established a free gold market. But Belgium is having trouble staying within its income, has run up a $6.2 billion national debt. Gradually, however, Belgium is getting the problem in hand, expects its deficit this...
...swings as soon as she sees the White Hunter she calls Bill Buncher: "A powerful red-faced man with very pale blue eyes, slightly bloodshot from staring out over the vast open spaces he inhabited professionally, he bowed and sank into a chair. He went down massively, like a wounded elephant." Tiny is staggered by his fee-$1,800, which includes native servants, gear, a car and a truck. But since it is an anniversary present, her husband insists on their having a "luxury" safari...