Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME more than the brief letter by Nasser [Nov. 28], in which he expresses his "admiration for the article dealing with the Egyptian revolution." In the same issue you publish an anti-American-Jewish piece by William Zukerman [JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES]. Let TIME and Zukerman note that I and a vast number of American Jews are not Zionists, or particularly favorable toward Zionism, but we feel bitterly that Israel is getting a raw deal. Jew or no Jew, in the great American tradition, I am for the underdog...
Steely Sounds. The Western reaction reflected a common conclusion about what Russia is up to. The Kremlin is deliberately bringing to an end the temporary warm-front toward the West and lunging at the vast, uncommitted softnesses of Asia and the Middle East. Molotov's steely noes at Geneva last month were the sounds of a door closing; the Kremlin was settling for the status quo in Europe...
...influential liberal conformity exists among the vast majority of professors at America's leading colleges, William F. Buckley asserted at a Law School Forum last night...
...cannot rally their own members to any political standard they choose. The reasons for this lie in the non-Marxian sociology of the American workingman. Its implications point a warning to the leaders of the new labor federation. While Meany and Reuther may visualize the AFL-CIO as a vast new political fulcrum which can make politicians tremble and cause labor policies to be transformed into political action, the task ahead may be much more difficult than either of them realizes. And, in making the attempt to influence political currents, the AFL-CIO chiefs may be risking more than they...
...less where it settled except when agitated by thermal or electrical disturbances. If such is the case, says gold, the dust could "flow over the surface like a liquid, running down the sides of cold craters to fill in the bottoms." Gold therefore believes that the moon's vast plains are not exposed layers of lava but oceans of fine-powdered dust that may be anything from 100 ft. to two miles in depth...