Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid. Their chief, former Brigadier General Reinhard Gehlen, 52, is a slight, tight-lipped Prussian with a passion for anonymity. A Wehrmacht regular, Gehlen rose in World War II to become head of the "Enemy Army-East," the super-secret intelligence staff that evaluated the reports of a vast network of German agents ranging the Eastern front from Leningrad to the Caucasus. Because his realistic appraisals of Soviet strength clashed with Hitler's wish-thinking, Gehlen often drew the Führer's fire. Once, the story goes, Hitler read a Gehlen paper and exploded angrily: "What fool...
...Breaking the Soviet press's seven-month practice of soft-pedaling attacks on religion, the Leningrad Pravda charged that the celebration of religious holidays by collective farmers is causing vast damage to Russian agriculture, declared that the people are "not in need of religion...
...dean of labor, they bake the community's bread, man the local tavern (still bone dry), learn to turn out such dishes as chicken flakes in bird's nest, eggnog pie, toasted Brazil-nut pie and ginger biscuits. They weave bedspreads, napkins and tablecloths, produce a vast assortment of wooden furniture. Though no student graduates without a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Berea regards its work program as an essential part of its education. Whether black or white, foreign or native, every boy or girl must put in at least ten hours a week at some sort...
...tractor rodeos are symptomatic of a vast and sweeping change in U.S. agriculture. Like U.S. businessmen, the nation's farmers have turned to automation. Typical of the great change are the Bidart brothers, John, 41, and Frank, 49, who started out in 1932 with 300 acres near Bakersfield, Calif., a borrowed tractor and four mules. Now they farm 5,600 acres of prime cotton land by machine. They have a cotton gin, 14 cotton pickers (costing $11,000 apiece), 24 tractors and eight trucks all equipped with two-way radios. Says John Bidart who also owns half-interest...
...creations have been reworkings not of nature but of art in general. "I imitate everything but myself," he would explain. The savage speed of his experiments often led him in circles; sometimes he sacrificed progress to change. History may view him as a childish titan who almost absentmindedly laid vast granite foundations for a thousand castles...