Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wing coalition, could not be Foreign Minister (because Good European Mollet mistrusts the man who killed EDC), and would not be Finance Minister (because Mendès opposes Socialist monetary doctrine). So Mendès accepted the office of Minister of State without Portfolio and went off into a vast chandeliered office, there (Socialists feared) to ponder fresh ways to get back to power. Mendès' newspaper L'Express groused: "This government does not correspond to the great hope aroused." And Catholic Commentator François Mauriac grumbled: "Don't let them think they can count...
Brazil's new President has made his countrymen a vast promise-not merely to cope with the old, urgent problems of sprinting inflation and nagging debts, but to push and pull the nation a long way toward the bright dream of tomorrow-in his own phrase, to achieve "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Kubitschek is a man with a political flair and a remarkable capacity for work; he will need both...
Practical Goals. With his inauguration assured, Kubitschek went off on a hurried, three-week airborne tour of the U.S. and Europe, to win friends and stir up foreign interest in Brazil's vast problems and opportunities. The trip also served the useful purpose of gaining added prestige for Kubitschek, and giving Brazilians a chance to catch their breath and reflect on what manner of man they had chosen. Even his supporters are likely to find him something of a novelty. Brazil has had generals, statesmen and intellectuals for Presidents, but never before a businessman type like Juscelino Kubitschek...
Cole said he believed that the vast majority of Alabama students condemned the mob action. He pointed to the many organizations which have drafted resolutions calling for respect for the law. "Nevertheless one must remember that none of these groups have expressed opposition to segregation or have asked for the reinstatement of Miss Lucy," he warned...
Politically acute Indians had no difficulty in interpreting Nehru's words. What would happen, they now thought, was that Nehru would announce that the big merger plan was too vast for hasty decision, and under cover of this smoke screen would defer indefinitely all plans for the reorganization of states, including those which had set off the riots...