Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing," and "there is no room for a Hyde Park in Nyasaland." Concluded the report: "Nyasaland is-no doubt only temporarily-a police state where it is not safe for anyone to express approval of the policies of the Congress Party, to which, before March 3, 1959, the vast majority of politically minded Africans belonged, and where it is unwise to express any but the most restrained criticism of government policy...
Some 350,000 landless peasant families will be entitled to small plots of land and liberal government credit for equipment, seeds and fertilizer. The government will begin by parceling out its own vast holdings, most of it uncleared jungle, and will tax untilled estates so heavily that owners will be encouraged to sell. As a last resort the government will expropriate, but estates under proper cultivation will not be taken over, no matter what their size. "The law is neither leftist nor rightist," says Agriculture Minister Victor Jimenez Landinez. "It is simply just...
...what ought to be, can man still find hope and purpose, be saved from the epidemic in the world ... the look in the eyes of oxen on the country roads." The play gains disturbing relevance of the most immediate sort by taking place among the power elite of one vast political system the night before its confrontation with those of the other side--on the frontier, "the point of attrition between two huge wheels. One half of the world against the other." One fears that it was only a sense of the most literal realism that led Betti to choose...
Firsthand Experience. The field of cancer is so vast, so full of unexplainable contradictions, so stubborn in resisting a decisive, exploitable breakthrough, that the army of investigators deployed in it suffer more frustration than most men on medicine's frontiers. The emotional anguish inseparable from cancer heightens their tension. The result is more than average jealousy and backbiting among cancer fighters. As chief coordinator in this setting, Rod Heller is a near ideal choice. Says a leading independent cancer specialist: "He doesn't make people mad. He's a diplomat." Says Heller himself: "You could call...
...vast majority of U.S. businessmen, says the report, feel that information gathering should cease "when it conflicts with legality or common morality," confined themselves to such above-board methods as sending a shopper to a competitor or analyzing published sources of information. But 27% reported that espionage had recently been discovered in their industry in forms that would do justice to any government's spy network. Concluded the Harvard men: "Business spying has resulted in the loss of many millions of dollars' worth of valuable corporate information...