Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa. In an 850-mile arc from Constantine in Algeria to Casablanca in Morocco, more than 800 were killed and thousands more wounded in a spreading, sporadic rebellion that brought the wrath of Islam close to the shores of Europe. The uprisings threatened to cut off France's vast colonies in equatorial Africa. More than 300 million Moslems were already feeling their impact, from Senegal to the Celebes. In the eye of the storm were 20,000 Americans-airmen and their families stationed at the four Strategic Air Command bomber bases in western Morocco...
...destroyed by fire. In 1831, Librarian Benjamin Peirce complained that the library was so crowded that "many of the books . . . have been excluded from their proper places by the want of room." For years, the lament was the same, and even after Mrs. George D. Widener gave Harvard a vast new building in memory of her son, who went down on the Titanic, the space problem loomed again...
...village folk, the Marquis and Marquise de Vogüé were almost legendary figures. He held one of the oldest titles, owned one of the biggest fortunes in France. Like his illustrious forebears, he was a fastidious man of the world, loved to travel, to hunt on his vast estates, to entertain lavishly in his turreted ancestral home, the Chateau de la Verrerie. Dressed in exclusive Dior gowns, his wife was every inch the grande dame, and on occasion, as she accompanied her financier husband on business trips, she helped close many a solid financial deal herself...
...wine harvest was coming on, and the vats of France were already sloshing full of a billion-liter surplus of wine. The country was in danger of becoming one vast cavern of undrunk wine. Last week, sensitive to the pressure of the winegrowers, who are France's most powerful farm bloc, the government set out to soak up the surplus...
...college recognized industrial growth by adding mechanical arts to its curriculum. In 1894, it held its first six-week course for dairymen, the starting point of its present vast Continuing Education Service. By 1901, the college had grown into such an essential contributor to the state's welfare that the legislature enacted a special tax to guarantee it up to $100,000 a year...