Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, despite shortcomings in the system, a vast majority--93 to 33--thought that "in their case, their adviser had done a good...
...most need economic aid have already recognized the necessity for accepting Western help. In fact, the first conclusions issued by the 29 nations at the recent Bandung conference was "the urgency of promoting economic development in the Asian-African region." President Eisenhower also singled out for special comment "the vast are of free Asia," because, as he said, "the immediate threats to world security" are now centered there...
...heartening report from Ann Arbor last week raised an urgent question for every U.S. parent: "Can my children get shots this year to keep them safe from polio?" For about 30 million (more than half the U.S. population under 18), the answer will be yes. Among them, a vast majority of children up to ten years of age will get the shots in one way or another. Originally, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had intended to offer the vaccine in a series of three closely spaced shots within five weeks of each other, as was done in last year...
...Truman staked out his favorite whipping boy, "the one-party press." "There has been no parallel in our history," said Truman, "to the cloak of protection thrown about this Administration by so much of the press . . . Never in the peacetime history of this nation has there been such a vast volume of persistent publicity to praise and extol an Administration." This week, on the day after the speech, the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James B. Reston angrily set Harry Truman straight: "Mr. Truman should have a talk with John Foster Dulles some time...
...picks under the name of "Cayton," is the best in the business. Last year, a $2 bet on every one of his choices would have brought a profit of better than $160-a remarkable performance. Alf and his paper make a strange combination. Politics, to him, is a vast irrelevance; horse racing, to the Worker, is a questionable capitalist diversion.* But back in 1935, the paper needed to boost circulation, and the Worker decided to cater to a weakness of the workers. The editors looked around for a horse handicapper, and there was Alf. Then unemployed, he had been picking...