Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRAGMENTARY AND DISTORTED WORD-PICTURE OF THE YOUTH OF FRANCE WAS AS UNFAIR AS IT WAS UNTRUE. KARNOW MERELY APES THE KREMLIN'S DESCRIPTION OF OUR OWN YOUTH IN THE U.S. HE GROSSLY INSULTS THE INTELLIGENCE OF TIME'S VAST AUDIENCE NO LESS THAN HE DOES THE FRENCH PEOPLE...
...Munitions of Peace." "We shall work with all others-especially through this great organization, the United Nations -so that peaceful and reasonable negotiations may replace the clash of the battlefield. In this way we can in time make unnecessary the vast armaments that-even when maintained only for security-terrify the world with their devastating potentiality and tax unbearably the creative energies...
...shattered the U.N.'s first foundations (the wartime Grand Alliance), mangled its basic assumption (Big Power unanimity), surrounded it with perils undreamed of by most of its founders (the H-bomb and Communist expansionism). The revolt against colonialism has all but doubled U.N. membership. Yet all these vast transformations, says Dag Hammarskjold, make the U.N., or something like it, not less but more essential. In this unyielding conviction, Hammarskjold believes that the nations are in San Francisco not to bury the U.N., but to reappraise...
...says Sir Winston Churchill, is the expression of "the heart's desire . . . of the vast majority of all the peoples . . . to earn their daily bread in peace." The U.N.'s moral power derives from its ability to mobilize a great intangible: world public opinion. It was a sense of this moral power that led the Belgians to improve conditions in their trust territory of Ruanda Urundi-before the U.N. Trusteeship Council sent out an inspection team. The British and French pulled their troops out of Syria and Lebanon in 1946 because, as civilized nations, they were unwilling...
...vast and luminous as a summer moon looms through a wheat stubble, and a long moment passes before the onlooker realizes that the hare it belongs to sits throbbing in terror of a stalking...