Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West of the jungle rise the high Andes -"God Almighty with His back up." On this vast plateau the ancient Incas, seeming to thrive on the cold, thin air, built the roads and stone cities for a creative population. The 5,400,000 numb survivors cling to their ancestral languages and communal farms, to their llamas and alpacas, but they have almost no part in their country's money economy. Only the rare towns and the mines, where U.S.-owned companies dig copper, lead, zinc and silver, are in this century...
...main building of the University's vast maintenance system, remodeled after its purchase from the Sterling Knitting Mills in the 1930s, is the headquarters of an organization so large that is cannot keep statistical records of the supplies it requires each year...
...salaries, live in slums and have little hope for the future. Social security, introduced on a large scale by the Popular Front government in 1936 specifically to benefit workers, has in a paradoxical way also contributed to a split between youth and its elders in the labor movement. The vast wave of agitation for better conditions that swept through the early '30s was largely led by family breadwinners. Today, with allotments for children (ranging from $10 a month for one child under five to $80 for four children), workers with families have gone into a different kind of income...
...hour pageant, Cry of Humanity, was written and produced by inmates of the District of Columbia's St. Elizabeths Hospital*; to mark the vast...
...Then the British writers, who once upon a time were renowned for understatement, really turned it on. Their champion, taking a savage beating, had indeed met defeat like a true Briton. "And that is why the high and the mighty, the men with power, the women with beauty and vast possessions are rising in a kind of primeval mass sympathy and acclamation for a man from thousands of miles away," wrote the London Daily Mirror's Peter Wilson. "They rise to him because they know he is exhibiting something which power cannot command, beauty cannot achieve nor money...