Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neutral Belt." The new Russian talk is of a vast "neutral belt" extending from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. The idea is that it would serve as a buffer zone between NATO and the Soviet empire. The frontiers of the neutral zone Molotov has not defined, but his clear intention is that it should include the whole of Germany, thus breaching the NATO front...
...last stumbling block was Article 35, which made over to the Soviet Union a vast collection of former German enterprises in Austria, including the Danube Shipping Co. and a 30-year title to some 60% of Austrian oil properties. In its anxiety to get an Austrian treaty signed, the West was willing, as late as 1954, to accept Article 35. Actually, the article was superseded last month when Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab flew to Moscow and agreed to buy back the German assets with a ransom of $2,000,000 cash, 10 million tons of oil and $150 million worth...
Some 35 million voters in 630 parliamentary constituencies had three weeks in which to listen, question, heckle and then, on May 26, to vote. Even before the first campaign oratory vibrated over trim farmlands, past black smokestacks, across cobbled village streets and town squares, the vast proportion had already made up their minds. Unless an astounding landslide is in the making-and few think one is-roughly 12 million to 13 million Britons are steadfastly for Labor and about the same number, or slightly fewer, are habitually Conservative. Perhaps 500 of Commons' seats are therefore already spoken...
...Fund handed out money to every deserving cause without a guiding policy, it would soon find its vast resources dissipated in the final analysis on worthless projects. The Foundation, therefore, has chosen to allocate its resources to five areas in a definite pattern...
...Broadway hit musicomedy Kismet opened in London with at least two handicaps. The show was housed in a vast theater off the beaten track, and it was saddled with an immense (for England) $126,000 budget. But after opening night, it looked as if Kismet would also be a London hit. "Obviously, a great success," said the Times...