Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toys and asked Louis Marx to ship a few and bill us (which he never did). Santa Marx sent a huge crate of toys, but it took two years for the children to finally receive them, because French customs officials were wary of the consignment. Because of the vast number and varied assortment of the toys, they wanted Picasso to take out an importer's license! Picasso and two friends fought French red tape, finally managed to convince the authorities that the toys were gifts for Picasso's children, and Picasso wasn't opening a French branch...
...Among those welcoming the "peacemakers" were a number of top-level bureaucrats just back from viewing a series of thermonuclear explosions * in north Siberia. Together they all piled into the Kremlin to get ready for this week's special meeting of the Supreme Soviet. Though the welcome was vast, it was silent; no one in the streets cheered...
...Lancers, describes the Battle of Omdurman, one of those minor actions which made the British Empire great in the days of Queen Victoria. For 80 years, Egyptian armies had spread fire and confusion among the ancient kingdoms of Kordofan, Darfur and Nubia, immediately south of Egypt, part of a vast area south of the Sahara desert called by the Arabs Bilad-as-Sudan, meaning Country of the Blacks. When the British army occupied Egypt (1882), an attempt was made to bring order also to these vassal states, but for a score of years a local religious leader, the Mahdi, with...
Into the-amphitheater of New Orleans' old and vast (1,800-bed) Charity Hospital * stepped a trim figure with a calmly confident air: Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner, then 31, newly appointed professor of surgery at Tulane University. He had ideas about how to teach diagnosis and surgery to medical students. From an adjoining examining room the first student-victim stepped in. He had just spent half an hour worriedly examining a patient. Now Professor Ochsner called for his diagnosis...
...Building. On top of this, he is often on the road for days at a time. During the course of a year he probably glad-hands more people than the President of the U.S. But he likes it all-the headaches, the demanding hours, and the vast rewards...