Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, a grim, ironic joke in Russia that the vast hinterland conceals numberless prison camps, slave-labor projects, and an abysmally low standard of living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world...
...speed, is "not compatible" with the A.A.A.'s day-to-day program of encouraging highway safety and careful driving. Other A.A.A. officials voiced yet another fear: should a major disaster, like that at Le Mans, occur at an A.A.A.-sponsored race, the organization might be legally liable for vast sums in damages...
Beakers of Death. It is to measure this beginning, and explore the vast promise beyond, that the unprecedented Geneva conference convened this week. In a marble palace where, only days before, the world's political leaders had floated the hope of a calmer, friendlier world, the world's scientific leaders contemplated the means to make it a better world as well...
...traveling to complete the exhaustion. Strange circumstances in a distant hotel; a good deal of alcohol perhaps, or worse, the hangover from it six hours ago-these all make the [male] as . . . ineffectual as[he] is ever likely to be In addition, the lore of the honeymoon-the vast repertory of awful jokes, none dignified-may be added to the anxiety ... At best there may be a hopeless anxious fumbling effort, certain to complete the rout of a tense, frightened ashamed and embarrassed girl. . . Indeed it almost seems wonderful that any marriages have ever survived...
...singer of doubtful merit but nothing else about her merits any doubt. She is an amoral Junior Mistress with green fingernail polish, a nymph in sheet's clothing. She drinks Prairie Oysters (one raw egg, one dash Worcestershire sauce) for breakfast, stirs her gin with vast quantities of sentimentality. Down and out, Sally meets young Christopher Isherwood, a struggling author. He offers to share his apartment with her. In gratitude, she asks: "Shall we have a drink first, or shall we go right to bed?" But Isherwood is too idealistic for that sort of thing, so the two decide...