Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico, he scared the striped pants off U.S. diplomats, who feared that he was setting up a Communist-type state right next door. At one swoop in 1938, Cárdenas took over 395,000 acres of henequen (fiber) land in Yucatán and turned it into a vast government collective farm. It was the nearest thing to a Soviet-style Sovkhoz (state farm) outside the U.S.S.R. Cardenas called it the Gran Ejido to distinguish it from numerous smaller semi-collectives in Mexico's ejidal system...
...closes with a few blows against its own breast. M.R.A., it says, "is in its way a judgment on the Church. In spite of its deficiencies and even its dangers, it has filled a vacuum in the lives of many men and women who . . . have been bewildered by the vast problems of our age ... But the vacuum should have been filled by a living and prophetic Christian faith, rooted in the life of the Church...
...through life and leaving nothing untouched-neither love nor the machine, war nor politics, neither art nor morals nor God. Of the three pioneers who built this Age of Psychology, Freud and Adler are dead. The third, Carl Gustav Jung, is still at 79 tirelessly adventuring through the vast reaches of the psyche...
...Mantas in vast flocks flap silently through pale and gloom, a nightmare vision as of witches on their way to the evil sabbath...
Under the kolkhoz system, each peasant is part of a vast cooperative and participates in the output of the whole farm. In addition to working for the cooperative and receiving a salary based upon the amount of work he does for it, the peasant on the kolkhoz is allowed to have a small plot of land upon which he can grow his own products and raise livestock. He can sell this produce on the open market to supplement his income. The peasant, as might be expected, generally prefers to till his own plot rather than the cooperative...