Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bock's columns back out of artillery range of the capital. Then the Russian winter, the severest in 50 years, halted all but patrol activity. In the six months of snow and thaw, Zhukov, using methods like those employed by Trotsky in the civil war, created and equipped vast new armies...
...official occasions he came out in full marshal's regalia: robin's-egg-blue trousers with yellow stripes, dark green tunic and bright red sash. Underneath the blouse, he wore a brass plate to carry the weight of his vast collection of decorations. A horrified British officer noted that Britain's cherished Order of the Bath was hanging just about where the marshal's navel would be. The only medals Zhukov seemed genuinely proud of were the three gold stars of his thrice-awarded Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Austria, the vast Red army was preparing its first retreat in Europe since World War II. Having made up its mind to give the Austrians back their freedom in exchange for neutrality, the Kremlin was literally showering concessions on the people whom it had curbed for ten years-returning their P.W.s, permitting them to fly their own airplanes, dismantling restrictions on trade. The Russians plainly hoped that the West Germans would be tempted to imitate the Austrian pattern-to trade a pledge of neutrality for a promise of German unity. But Heinrich von Brentano, the man who is slated...
...artificial situation. Because of its insane pretensions as a global power, because of its preoccupation with spreading Communism abroad, the Kremlin has immensely added to its task. It is trying to carry out the traditional development from simple arable to complex mixed farming while, at the same time, diverting vast acreages and resources to the so-called industrial crops and cutting itself off from the free supply of agricultural machinery from abroad. It is, in a word, carrying out an industrial revolution and trying to carry out an agricultural revolution, while existing in a voluntary state of siege...
Before Wright, Folger was sometimes known as a literary Fort Knox, with its invaluable treasures buried in regulations. Built and endowed (with $11.5 million) in 1930 by Oil Tycoon Henry Clay Folger to house his vast, scattered hoard of Shakespeariana, the library was run almost like an exclusive club. Only scholars known to its staffers could gain access to its books and manuscripts-after writing in advance. Even the favored few were stopped by the silken rope, had to sit on a bench until a staff member came to escort them to the books. As a result, days went...