Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolsheviks in 1918 and served as a soldier in the civil war. As a party worker in the '30s. he caught the attention of Politburocrat Lazar Kaganovich (now First Deputy Premier and apparently No. 8 or 9 in the hierarchy), who brought him to Moscow. After the vast 1937-38 purge had carried off hundreds of thousands of his comrades, Khrushchev was sent into the Ukraine to help build up the demoralized party organization. He became a Ukrainian expert...
...season in the Ukraine had ruined the harvest, and vast quantities of grain had rotted on the railroad sidings; in the Volga region, dry winds cut crops. It did not matter to Khrushchev that these failures were aggravated by his own plan to switch wheat production to Siberia, and that the harvest in the Ukraine had been delayed (and a fourth of it lost) because he had ordered much of the machinery for its collection removed to Siberia. All he wanted was something to pin on Malenkov, head of the negligent government ministries...
...vast disparity between applications and acceptances has made the whole subject of premedical education emotionally explosive, creating numerous misconceptions and special problems. In order to inject some system into suggestions for improvements, the Committee for the Survey of Medical Education, aided by a grant from the Markle Foundation, set up a committee to study pre-professional education...
...insults are subtle; the vast majority rely on a change of tone on the inside page. "You've got a dual personality," coos the cover of one. "And nobody likes either of them," snarls page three...
...applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the traditional stronghold of the humanities, these figures seem alarming. The stories of business personnel offices which are unusually unreceptive to applications from humanities majors, and recent statements from President Pusey and other educators, make the problem seem of vast proportions indeed...